Budget Cutting for Beginners

 It's obvious to anyone without a (D) behind their name that we have to cut the federal budget. Most of those folks are more worried about having to cut the spending for their favorite program spending than they are worried about paying our bills. They are more worried that we won't be able to furnish drag queen shows for other countries than they are about loading up the taxpayers with debt.

Balancing your budget as a nation really isn't much different than balancing your budget at home. Democrats in Congress keep telling us that they can do this but can't explain why they haven't done it yet. Hell, they can't even explain how a bill they called the Inflation Reduction Act increased spending, drove up the deficit and didn't reduce inflation. 

Here's a simple idea to understand. If a guy drives his car through a garage door, destroys the cars inside and ends up with his car in the laundry room, he is not the guy who gets to drive the car out of the garage. To get the car out, you have to understand how the car got in there in the first place.

I think that we need to put some bankruptcy attorneys and bankruptcy judges in the Office of Management and Budget to oversee what is happening there. Have them look at every expense of the federal government.

Do you ever go through your credit card bill or your bank statement at home and wonder, "What the hell was that for?" Multiply that times about 200 million and you have the situation that we are facing today. Just like your kid doesn't need a $300 baseball bat and a $200 glove, we don't need to export expensive demonstrations of depraved behavior to foreign countries. Let's not let the world know that we are both financially and morally bankrupt!

At some point in life parents have to cut the apron strings to their kids. It's okay to help them out if times are tough, but we don't need to send them on a Caribbean cruise when they lose their job. There is probably not enough magic at Disney's Magic Kingdom to get the kids back to work.

How can we get the public involved? First, write every Congressional bill in SIMPLE English. We need to tell Americans what we are spending their tax money on. The whole "black budget" bullshit is history. If Congress can't tell us what they are spending it on, they shouldn't spend it. Our enemies know more about what we are spending our money on than our own citizens know. It is time to end this practice. If you don't think that the Chinese know more about what our government spends than the American public does, remember that they make most of our computers and smart phones. No chance of anything there being compromised, is there? We aren't keeping secrets from other countries. Our politicians are keeping secrets from the American people.

If you think that the black hole of secret spending on the "black budget" is a good idea, try it with your wife and family.  Tell the little woman that you are going to spend about 25% of your income on stuff that you aren't going to tell her about. Before doing this, take out enough cash to retain that divorce attorney that you will need. You probably want to buy a cot to sleep on as well.

Finally, quit telling us that we can't afford to cut the budget. What we need to do is simple. We need to invoke Jones' Rule of Circumcision. Jones' Rule of Circumcision says that you can cut 10% off of anything and it will still work. A few years of that kind of budgeting and we will be on the road to economic security.