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Nancy Pelosi - more and more irrelevant

Nancy Pelosi has just such a fertile ground of the political class madness in the past four years she was a speaker was Of the house. Consider some of their finest moments:

• When Congress tried to decide whether or not to further extend unemployment benefits, made them not quite as solid economic announcement that the sending of unemployment checks is one of the very best ways to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Taken to its logical conclusion, implies its assertion that more people are unemployed, the more jobs are created.
• assist in the promotion of specific legislation on unemployment, she reacted angrily over the slow pace of the negotiations said that "500 million Americans lose their jobs every week. "Since there are only about 300 million Americans in the country, of which not all old enough to work, it seems that it is one in a different way than most of us.
• As the opposition grew against the passage of Obama Care, she announced that we have the massive, 2,000 + page bill Pass had to find out what's in it and keep our differences until then. Why we could not know what is in the bill before still a mystery for me. Is it possible that they do not even know what was in it at the time? Congress was that much out of control under their rule that they over stuff that they do not know what it was? As Attorney General Eric Holder legal action brought against the state of Arizona on his illegal immigration bill, although he did not read the twelve Page document, it is not beyond the realm of possibility.

Funny stuff, in a sad, pathetic way. Fortunately, it is no longer the Speaker of the House, lost to her place, if the Republicans control of the House of Representatives in November. However, it is still a source of confusing statements and views of reality, so you wonder the same thing that Frasier Crane was thinking in an old "Cheers" episode when he Cliff Clavin said, "What color is the sky in your world, Cliff?"

Her latest strange remark was a response to a number of proposed Budget cuts that the House Republicans have proposed as a first set of steps to get the Federal Republic of deficit spending under control. Before they cite to see it Remember that during the four years she was a speaker of the house were the federal government some of his highest annual spending deficits in every respect:

• In absolute numbers during her term as Speaker, the federal government gave more than 4 trillion dollars more than it collected in sales. This led to an additional $ 40,000 debt to every American household.
• was in relative terms, federal spending as a percentage of our GDP in the 10% range for some of those more than three times, say what most reasonable economists would, is a safe percentage.
• To keep pace with the rate of 10%, the economy would, in theory grow to 10% per year to keep up. We are happy if the economy grow by 3%, let alone 10%.

The really sad part of this economic disaster is that it presided over that when she was Speaker, she declared that she would run the House of Representatives budget process as a "pay as you go system." In other words, no additional expenditures would be approved by Congress, when sections were elsewhere in the budget. This seems inconsistent with the actual Results, unprecedented trillion deficits every year.

So, what does it mean to say if the Republicans start the long process towards fiscal control and discipline want:

"Democrats are committed fiscal discipline, beginning with an aggressive attack on waste, fraud and abuse in our federal budget. But we will not do so at the expense of good jobs, a strong middle class and a growing economy. "

As usual, if it does not specify what would that "fiscal discipline". We have no experience with Pelosi's version of budget discipline, since we saw him Never during her four years as Speaker. We have never seen the Democrats attacking waste and fraud because they never did during her term as speaker. Obama's own Administration last year acknowledged that nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars is lost annually to fraud and criminal acts by the leaking government Health Insurance.

Consider how CBS News reported on 9 February 2011, that federal government training programs are redundant and fraud. It reviewed a federal law-service training in Iowa, whose director misused taxpayer money, in the amount of $ 1,500,000 for illegal bonuses for themselves and others, all of which took hundreds of trips to casinos on working time and the taxpayers dollars. Another program in West Virginia found that its director illegally funneled $ 100,000 of taxpayer money to their son.

CBS went on to explain that the federal government spends 18000000000 $ per year on state education programs, but that is spread out over 47 different federal Agencies to serve most of which the same people. Of the 47, only five of the agencies has ever been examined to see if their students have more jobs than those who have not gone through the training. The report concluded that "was not looking for examples of waste difficult. It is not easy to prove the programs work like that. "

As I said so very well. Pelosi and the Democrats were responsible for four years. You can not blame Bush for this, all that happens on your Clock. And now they have "fiscal discipline" and they want an "aggressive attack on waste, fraud and abuse." Please spare us the drama. They had their chance and they proved that they do not, or not (the end result is the same) to run a sensible, efficient and effective state budget and operations.

Hopefully they will never be a chance in any type of power situation, the country would not be able to be their bungling and lack of focus. Over four trillion dollars in deficit spending in four years. That comes to over 115 million U.S. dollars an hour that the government spent that they do not have on your Clock. Unbelievable. You do not deserve any kind of second chance. Hopefully they will be relevant, as they make public their tirades to be.

If they really wanted what does the financial discipline and responsibility they would have considered the following steps:

1. Step 1 - reduce federal spending 10% per year five years, by a fundamental look at every government department and function, the elimination of waste, redundancy and programs that serve not want American citizens.
2. Step 2 - aggressively pursue and prosecute fraud in all government programs.
3. Steps 3 - reign in cost explosion in the system of social security wait by raising the retirement age for those who can afford to, and can reduce or eliminate benefits for those who exceed the wealth policies.
4. Step 4 - Bring back almost all foreign U.S. troops set up as soon as possible, we can not longer afford to garrison the world.

As Pelosi makes itself irrelevant, the President must be very careful. Much of the excessive deficit in spending and waste and fraud in state Programs happened on his clock as well. The 115 million U.S. dollars of deficit spending an hour is his number too. If he is not careful, he may be as irrelevant as Mrs. Pelosi, if to step up and make it show the courage, the difficult cuts that the government needs to make turns. If he does not, his White House tenure could already half over.

About the Author

Walter "Bruno" Korschek is the author of the book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government. - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom and Destroying The American Political Class," which is available at www.loathemygovernment.com and online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Our daily dialog on freedom in American can be joined at www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.,com.

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