Watching Government Spend Your Money
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
As Nevada continues to plunge ahead with the process of considering the ways of dealing with too much outgo and not enough income, the elected officials at the federal level make their plans for further increasing spending and raising debt limits, digging taxpayers deeper into debt.
The challenge in dealing with government’s spending binges is that we seem to be unable to equate the concept that when our elected officials are sharing their visions for programs and services that they are working to give to us – they’ve got their hands in our pockets, reaching to get the funds for paying for those things we’re supposed to be able to unable to live without. This Heritage Foundation piece piece highlights in simple terms the situation that those in charge of things in Washington, D.C. are doing to bury U.S. taxpayers deeper in debt.
As our elected officials position themselves for trying to talk us into re-electing them, the messages of how much they have been doing for us sugarcoats the things which are getting done to us. We run the risk of thinking that we just couldn’t afford to not having them where they are doing so much more! Meanwhile, the day of reckoning is approaching when horrendous tax increases are just going to have to be our civic duty.
Those who call for reductions in government spending are portrayed as uncaring and out-of-touch…those who burn through taxpayer dollars (and the dollars of taxpayers who aren’t even born yet) are worshiped and praised. As we start doing the math perhaps we might start figuring out who actually need to be the ones replaced in November of 2010.
As Nevada continues to plunge ahead with the process of considering the ways of dealing with too much outgo and not enough income, the elected officials at the federal level make their plans for further increasing spending and raising debt limits, digging taxpayers deeper into debt.
The challenge in dealing with government’s spending binges is that we seem to be unable to equate the concept that when our elected officials are sharing their visions for programs and services that they are working to give to us – they’ve got their hands in our pockets, reaching to get the funds for paying for those things we’re supposed to be able to unable to live without. This Heritage Foundation piece piece highlights in simple terms the situation that those in charge of things in Washington, D.C. are doing to bury U.S. taxpayers deeper in debt.
As our elected officials position themselves for trying to talk us into re-electing them, the messages of how much they have been doing for us sugarcoats the things which are getting done to us. We run the risk of thinking that we just couldn’t afford to not having them where they are doing so much more! Meanwhile, the day of reckoning is approaching when horrendous tax increases are just going to have to be our civic duty.
Those who call for reductions in government spending are portrayed as uncaring and out-of-touch…those who burn through taxpayer dollars (and the dollars of taxpayers who aren’t even born yet) are worshiped and praised. As we start doing the math perhaps we might start figuring out who actually need to be the ones replaced in November of 2010.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 12/16/2009 2:03 AM 
Categories: Government
Tags: Federal Deficit Election 2010 Nevada Budget Government Spending
Categories: Government
Tags: Federal Deficit Election 2010 Nevada Budget Government Spending
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