The latest federal budget puts the lie once and for all to Republican promises of fiscal restraint.
The “one bill to rule them all,”
2,232-page, gargantuan, swamp-beast omnibus emerged from the
smoke-filled bowels of congressional leadership earlier this week and
passed both House and Senate mere hours after it was unveiled. The
legislation spends $1.3 trillion in taxpayer dollars, busts the budget
caps imposed back in 2011, and will lead to trillions of spending each
and every year, ad infinitum, with interest payments on the massive
federal debt to outpace the cost of the military and the cost of
Medicaid in just eight short years. But at least we don’t have to worry
about a government shutdown—in 2018, that is.
For nearly two decades now, we’ve watched this charade. Despite
Republican promises of fiscal responsibility, they continue to spend
like drunken sailors on holiday. That our elected leaders chose to blow
this much money without even the pretense of having read the bill is
both shocking and disgusting. And yet most of us remain complacent and
continue about our daily routines. We barely blink as Congress binges on
$1.3 trillion in unpaid-for federal spending. Not that long ago, a bill
hammered out in secret caused the House to revolt against then-speaker John Boehner.
Yet today’s secretly negotiated package fails to crack even the front
page, as we’re treated instead to the minute details of Trump’s alleged
affair with a Playboy model. This is our American version of bread and
circuses, paid for on credit.
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