The Shutdown Law can
only be fixed by Congress. The President cannot fix this. Congress should take a hard look at the
idiocy of the Antideficiency Act that codifies the Shutdown travesty.
If Congress wants some
punishment for their failure to pass budgets, the budget itself should suffer
the consequences, not the federal employees.
With each day of failure to pass budgets on time, the Congress should
impose across-the board budget reductions to whatever budget is eventually
approved.
To avoid a shutdown,
Bills passed by the House and Senate need to be signed by the President. So the
President could actually trigger and prolong a shutdown and under new rules
could impose budget reductions. Because budgets require Presidential approval,
the President actually shares “control of the purse” with Congress. Congress alone does not have exclusive
authority over spending. Congress
doesn’t control the purse, it designs the purse and the President approves it.
The current Shutdown
Law was conceived 120 years ago before the myriad of budget work-arounds had
been available. Congress and the President need to review these loopholes and
close the worst of them. All US Laws need to be reviewed to reduce federal
involvement and funding of things the States should control and pay for under
the 10th Amendment.
The Shutdown Scam is a
symptom of the kind of problems that are created by unconstitutional federal
laws, departments, agencies and programs enacted over the past 120 years. We
are wasting $6 trillion of our $20 trillion GDP on government and that’s 30%.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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