Common Sense Requests

Technically America won’t run out of money until June. That leaves a little bit of time to negotiate the debt ceiling. The Republican Study Committee has a few suggestions as to what is needed in order for Republicans to agree to raise the debt ceiling. As much as I hate to see the debt ceiling raised again, I like their suggestions.

The Washington Examiner posted an article listing their demands:

Here is the list:

The seven demands are quoted below:

    1. Reverse recent increases in overall discretionary spending and institute statutory limitations on annual discretionary spending levels.
    2. Enact a package of inflation-busting reforms to increase domestic energy capacity and reduce associated regulatory and permitting barriers.
    3. Fight inflation and the onset of a Democrat-induced recession by ending the national COVID-19 emergency, increasing workforce participation, advancing targeted, paid-for, pro-growth tax policies, and countering overregulation with common-sense guardrails like the REINS Act.
    4. Ensure an increase in the debt ceiling is accompanied by commensurate spending reductions, including through recissions of the Democrats’ recent excessive spending.
    5. Eliminate wasteful spending on duplicative programs, examine ways to fight waste, fraud and abuse, and transition non-entitlement mandatory programs to the discretionary side of the budget.
    6. Establish a long-term fiscal control focused on reducing spending to restrain the growth of our federal debt as a percentage of the nation’s economy.
    7. Codify procedures to ensure the federal government honors certain critical obligations, such as federal debt payments, national security and veterans, Social Security, and Medicare.

We need to get back to fiscal sanity. This would be one way to do it.

Reversing The War On Families

The following is a guest post by Raynor James.

The fake regime in D.C., the deep state, globalists, and whatever else you call this evil cabal has been waging war on traditional, two parent, nuclear families for a long time. American children and their parents are paying the price. They’re unsure of themselves and others. They’re insecure. They don’t know who to trust or what to believe. Divorce and poverty are on the rise. Americans are being hurt in the area in which our greatest happiness used to be found–the nuclear family.How is this happening? You and I both know. We’ve waked up to the fact that garbage is being taught in our public schools. Students are taught that their very nature is the result of their SKIN COLOR. White people are oppressors. Everyone else is a victim. As a result, people dislike themselves and everyone else. In addition, gender fluidity (an oxymoron if there ever was one) is being taught and encouraged in very young, very impressionable children, and material being pushed on children that is intended to (and does) sexualize them at very young ages. That is child abuse. There are many penalties for being married built into our tax code, into our welfare rules, and into many government edicts about employment and whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor (with more flexibility and choice).

There are many ways the US governments discourages family formation; however, there’s a movement afoot that’s intended to reverse the trend rather dramatically. Chairman Jim Banks and the Republican Study Committee have been working diligently on a “Family Policy Agenda.” The people involved include Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, Rep. Ted Budd, Rep. Debbie Lesko, and many more. The group has met with President Trump to get his input. At the end of September, Chairman Jim Banks and the Republican Study Committee published its “Family Policy Agenda,” which contains10 basic principles and over 80 policy recommendations to restore the American family. It brings the 1990s “Contract with America” to mind.

Let’s look at some of the basic principles, shall we? Principle number one is to protect children from far-left ideologies inside and outside the classroom. It cites things like the transgender movement, racial ideologies, sexualization, dangers from big tech and internet predators, and the like. It also includes increased penalties for people who harm children and ideas for protecting children from drugs.

Principle number two is to give working families flexibility as to where and how they earn a living and get rid of one-size-fits-all government rules, and to ease up on government licensing requirements for various types of employment.

Principle number three is to implement policies reflecting the reality that parents (not government officials) are best qualified to make decisions about the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of their children, enshrine parental rights in law including the right to know what’s happening in their children’s schools, and the right and ability of parents to choose their child’s school, and the right of parents over public health bureaucrats in making health care decisions.

If you’re like me, these principles sound wonderful, but how do we get them from “pie in the sky” to REALITY? By electing America First, MAGA candidates to the US House and Senate (as well as to local school boards, and other local and state offices), that’s how! But what about cheating? Volunteer as a poll worker, poll observer, and/or outside-the-poll campaigner. Get trained (by your party), and also study the material at “Operation 2022 ELECTION OVERWATCH” if you can find time. Write to “We the People” at info@wtpevents.org to find out when they’re having online seminars. Or check in with NCEIT and access one of their programs.

I won’t sugar coat it. We’re up against some scum bags who will try to rig the election. If we don’t work VERY HARD, they WILL succeed. So let’s work VERY HARD! Something called ERIC was slipped into NC HB-103 thanks to Phil Berger (President Pro Tempore of the NC Senate) and Tim Moore (Speaker of the NC House) via traitorous deal they cut with “King” Roy. ERIC farms out how our voter rolls are maintained. In states that already have the system, the voter rolls are bloated just BEFORE each election, and they shrink just AFTER each election. Nice, huh?

We probably can’t ditch ERIC prior to the election, but there are things we can do. First, we can do the poll work mentioned above. Next, we can make phone calls to conservatives asking them to vote. Third, we can follow the advice from “We the People” and vote ON ELECTION DAY AFTER 3 p.m. If enough of us do that, it will make it difficult for the bad guys to know how many fraudulent votes they have to “find,” and we can WIN in spite of both Hell and high water –and we know that at least one of them will be involved!

Forget The Scolding By Obama–Look At The History

 

Jim Jordan (Ohio politician)

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Fox News yesterday quoted President Obama on the failure of the super committee:

“There will be no easy off ramps on this one,” Obama said at an afternoon press conference where he laid blame squarely on Republicans who refused to bend in their defense of tax cuts for the wealthy during debt talks. “We need to keep the pressure up to compromise, not turn off the pressure.”

This is simply wrong. The only budget in the past three years proposed by a Democrat was President Obama’s, and it was voted down by the Senate 97 to 0 (according to The Hill).

Big Government posted a more accurate evaluation of where we are and how we got here by Representative Jim Jordan:

Jordan Responds to the Super Committee’s Lack of Agreement

 Washington, DC – Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan offered the following statement after the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction failed to come to agreement, triggering $1.2 trillion of automatic spending cuts over a ten year period beginning in 2013:

Throughout the year, the Republican Study Committee has offered solutions to address the debt crisis, including the Cut, Cap and Balance plan that passed the House with bipartisan support.  But instead of a solution, Washington wanted a deal, and thus the Super Committee was created.”

“I want to thank our Republican leadership for holding the line on taxes.  Higher taxes do not create jobs – they only serve to feed Washington’s insatiable appetite to spend.”

I also want to thank Co-Chairman Jeb Hensarling for his leadership in trying to find bipartisan solutions to stop the out-of-control spending in a town that has only balanced its budget five times in the past 50 years.  Unfortunately, this exercise has further proven that the liberal appetite for bigger government and higher taxes outweighs everything else.”

Though President Obama acknowledged that entitlement programs are some of the biggest drivers of our debt, he has failed to show any leadership in trying to save them.  Predictably, the tax-and-spend Democrats on the Joint Select Committee fell in line right behind him.  Their failure of leadership could doom these important safety net programs.”

Moving forward, there are clear and responsible ways to solve our debt and economic problems without raising taxes.  I encourage Congressional leaders to advance the Republican Study Committee’s concrete solutions to create jobs, reduce spending, and balance the budget.”

Solutions from the Republican Study Committee·    

H.R. 408, the Spending Reduction Act, identifies over 100 unnecessary programs, provides a head start towards balancing the budget, and saves taxpayers trillions of dollars over the next decade.     

The RSC Budget for FY 2012 balances the federal budget in less than ten years and institutes reforms that will protect seniors and help save Americans’ health care safety net. 

H.R. 2560, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, cuts spending immediately, caps it in future years, and requires Congress to send a Balanced Budget Amendment to the American public for approval.   

H.R. 3400, the Jobs Through Growth Act, cuts through red tape, creates a simpler and fairer tax code, and tears down barriers to energy production. In short, it creates jobs by growing the economy, not the government     

H.R. 1167, the Welfare Reform Act, builds upon the successful reforms of 1996, paves the way to find efficiencies in the 70+ federal welfare programs, and returns welfare spending to pre-recession levels once unemployment falls to 6.5%.

 

This is a much more accurate picture of the history of the budget battle than the one given by President Obama. Higher taxes on the rich will not solve anything–they will only promote class warfare–one of the major talking points the Democrat party will use in the 2012 election cycle. We don’t need to punish people who have worked hard to be successful. Taking money away from people who work hard and giving it to other people does not encourage anyone to work hard. Do we really want the government deciding how much we are allowed to earn before they start taking it away from us?


 



 

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