Government Waste

I believe all spending not in strict compliance with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution is government waste. Each time government has ignored the 10th Amendment and attempted to take responsibility for our responsibilities, it ruined whatever it took over.

Education is broken. I would put k-12 and college on the internet and close the schools and colleges. I would remove all government financial support from education.

Healthcare is broken. I would replace hospitals with home care, replace malpractice settlements with license suspension, remove all defensive medicine Healthcare costs are too high because its paid for by a third party who has no reason to want to change it. I would remove all government and corporate financial support from healthcare and force insurance companies to return to catastrophic coverage and HSAs.

Social Security is broken We should end it
We should pay out what each participant put in. We should have all who haven’t yet earned any income to have their 15.3% deposited in their own self-directed IRA.

Courts are out of control
The courts slam us with whatever anti-people schemes environmentalists and atheists cook up. They allow clearly unconstitutional laws and court decisions. The Supreme Court has misinterpreted the meaning of the words in the Constitution. “Life” should include the unborn. “Born” should apply to those children born to U.S. citizens. The separation of church and state has been distorted to support anti-Christian court decisions and now challenges our freedom of worship. They won’t even intervene in violations of the 10th Amendment passed by Congress.

Giveaways
Welfare, foreign aid, foreign military base maintenance, pork project that are truly unnecessary and a myriad of do-gooder, busybody nanny state departments and agencies are all part of government waste

Campaign Finance is broken. I would limit campaign expenses to $1 to $5 per registered voter in their district. There are 600,000 people in congressional districts. I think that could fund a website and buy a few yard signs.

What can we do to get this to happen ?
I think the first step toward sanity would be to purchase our elected representatives back from the special interests and only allow constituents to make campaign contributions… no PACs, no outsiders, just registered voters in the candidates’ city, county, district or state. State legislatures need to do this… the U.S. Congress won’t.

Loss of self sufficiency is loss of freedom
It’s bad enough that about 25% of us are receiving Social Security and Medicare and another 25% of us are receiving tax subsidies of other various sorts. At least 50% of us are naturally conflicted in demanding that the government reduce its spending on us. Also we are split 50-50 in our opinion over the wisdom of expanding the social safety net. We are not in a good place. If the Left prevails, we could find ourselves with a $100 trillion real National Debt, with interest only payments at 4% of $3 trillion a year, 80% tax rates and no economy left in the U.S. Our loss of freedom would come in two ways: 1. we wouldn’t have an economy and could not support ourselves and 2. we expect our guns would have been confiscated, our churches closed and our freedom to disagree eliminated. This has already taken place in our public schools and colleges. We would be at the mercy of criminals and subjugated by government and cultural oppression. If this sounds like Communist Russia, it is. If we keep our current system, no one would be able to retire before age 80 except government employees.

The bailouts and stimulus spending thus far is like ensuring that all the passengers on the Titanic have scuba air tanks so they won’t drown. That’s nice, but when the Titanic sinks, everyone will freeze to death.