I was talking to a friend yesterday and during the course of our conversation the topic of the House and Senate payroll came up. As a solution I suggested a per diem pay structure for Congress and the Senate. On the surface that sounded like a decent idea to me, but then I let it roll around in my head for a little while............
The major flaw in that idea is that lobbyists and corporations are still going to feed the greedy bastids that continually pass legislation to our detriment as hard-working, producing members of a once great nation.
I am always trying to remind people that the government on all levels (local, state, federal) has no wealth.
This is fact!
The wealth that they accumulate/collect/steal, is OURS, we earned it by producing, delivering, selling, refining products that benefit all of mankind. And yet, we continue to finance these ridiculous social welfare programs and the gluttonous degenerates that deliver them via, taxes, surcharges, regulatory fees, etc.
Why?
There have to be ways to starve the hungry beast that is big government...........
Aren't there?
I realized that in a very very small way that I did just that when I recently purchased goods from a local farmer. Sure, it was a minute amount of money when compared with the trillions being spent currently.
But, what if just 10% of us, that's 10% of the entire United States population did something similar?
That is 10% of just over 300,000,000 people..................30 million great Americans taking even $1.00 worth of taxes out of the mouth of big government. Lets say we are each only able to find some way to excercise that free market experiment once each week.........that calculates as $30,000,000.00/week times 52 weeks=$1,560,000,000.00 per year.
That is a substantial amount of money!
Heck, that might even be enough to starve out one or two useless social programs.
I realize that some people will say I am crazy and that it just can't be done.
Why not?
I would think that such an intelligent group of people could come up with hundreds of ways to cut off just small amounts of our funding to the Federal and State governments.
One thing is certain. We can no longer look to our elected officials to look out for our best interests (if we ever could). To make matters worse, there are not enough conservatives in the Senate or the House to lodge a successful filibuster of the inevitable onslaught of more liberal social welfare programs.
Any ideas?
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