Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Wyoming Senators promoting federal debt, By Jeff Morris - Evanston
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Senator Thomas, Senator Enzi, I’ve often addressed you in my letters to this fine Wyoming newspaper. I’ve never received a reply. Do you and your staff not read Wyoming newspapers, or do you simply not find your constituents worthy of a reply? You, both of you, just voted for the fourth increase in the federal debt limit since President Bush first took office. Those increases presently total over $3 trillion dollars. What sort of debt limits are these if you keep increasing them? The only real answer? They aren’t limits at all.
Since taking total control of the Executive and Legislative branches of our federal government, Republicans have done nothing but grow our federal government at an unprecedented rate. Business in Washington, D.C. has grown to the point where we’re seeing commercials on TV with the D.C. Chamber of Commerce bragging that business there has grown 60 percent. Government is the only business in Washington, D.C. and you, sirs, have allowed it to get out of hand. Since Bush first took office, you Republicans have borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than all previous presidents and congresses combined. Combined! Part of that historic debt is to the Communist Chinese, who I might add, run several of our ports on the West coast.
It is often said that we are borrowing from our children’s future. That’s true. We do that, evidently, by voting for you. You? You’re borrowing popularity and prestige from future federal legislators, who will have to raise taxes and withhold services if these monumental debts are allowed to run their projected course. Foreign debt is wholly ruinous for this country. You know that, yet you continually vote with the herd to increase it. And don’t give me the standard answer that we can grow our way out of this problem. We can’t. Economists quit saying that two years ago. We can grow ourselves out of debt, but not this debt. Again, you know all this. You just don’t like talking about it.
Don’t make the mistake of dismissing me as a Democrat who is writing all this for political reasons. I’ve switched parties twice in the last 10 years and now I’ve settled on neither. I’m now an independent who thinks both parties do nothing but protect their phony baloney jobs by selling our future down the road. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Both parties have now turned terrorism into nothing but vote-bait. You keep shoveling borrowed money into Iraq, with no end in sight. Iran? How about we pay for our wars as we fight them?
Senator Thomas, Senator Enzi, we’re on to you. Last time we heard from you, Senator Thomas, you used this newspaper to tell us, despite appearances to the contrary, how great things are really going in Iraq. How about explaining on this very page, your justification for increasing the debt limit? How about you admit you’ll do it again next year if you’re re-elected?
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Comments about this article:
I am profoundly disturbed at a U.S. war "Machine" that converts bodies into profits while leaving us irredeemably in debt. It is often said that we are borrowing from our children’s future. What is less known is to what extant that applies. The federal government’s fiscal exposures now total more than $46 trillion, up from about $20 trillion in 2000. This staggering revelation was included in the US Dept. of Treasury's own report. (the 2005 Financial Report of the United States Government (1mb PDF) (Page 28 in the printed version, or pg 32 in Adobe reader) http://www.fms.treas.gov/fr/05frusg/05frusg.pdf
That's an additional $26 TRILLION in debt since Dubya took office! "Senator Thomas, Senator Enzi, we’re on to you." Indeed we are....
Thank you Mr Morris for your bravery and elequence.
-Rev. James Sofra
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