How your government lies to you

I love it when hypocrites get caught telling lies, don’t you? The look of fear in their eyes when the web of deceit comes tumbling down. I know I shouldn’t, but I do get a bit of pleasure out of the whole thing.

Just last week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted a huge lie.

Believe it or not, it came from our esteemed leaders in Congress. They’re spending like drunken sailors on shore leave. Then they turn around and hand the good taxpayers (you and me) the bill.

Nancy Pelosi and crew just allocated half a billion dollars for new luxury jets for Congress. This comes just months after tarring and feathering CEOs for using private jets to attend Congressional hearings.

Seems kind of two-sided, don’t you think?

Here’s where the lies start… our members of Congress all claim to support fiscal responsibility. But, they sure don’t act like it. The Defense Department says they don’t need these new jets. Since when is spending $550 million on something you don’t need fiscally responsible? I call that a lie.

Who appointed whom....?

Fellow Americans, did the politicians hire us or did we the people hire them? If you agree that we hired them then what are your doing about it? Join me and become a voice and hold these rectless idiots accountable. Let them know that they work for us.

How the USA lies to us citizens. See if you can find the lie in this statement.

“It is critically important that Congress act before the [debt] limit is reached,” Tim Geithner wrote over the weekend in a letter to lawmakers, “so that citizens and investors here and around the world can remain confident that the United States will always meet its obligations."

Sounds like our Treasury Secretary is finally putting his foot down, insisting that Congress pull back its lavish spending programs and start addressing our incredible $11.6 trillion national debt.

Wait… what’s that? Oh, Geithner’s actually asking for Congress to raise the debt ceiling. If Congress authorizes our government to dig deeper than $12.1 trillion in debt (our current glass ceiling) our partners here and abroad will somehow “remain confident.” How perverse is that?

Save your country and join to become a voice or be a wimp and sit on the side line while you leave nothing of this country to your children.

Another bank.......I thought the recession is ending

It’s Monday… time to check in on the annual bank failure tally: Two in Florida and one in Oregon bit the dust over the weekend. That brings the 2009 running total to 72. The three took a $185 million chunk from the FDIC’s war chest. So far this year, the agency has lost over $15 billion from its bank insurance fund.

You had better learn to ride a bicycle, Obama orders....hmm

The U.S. budget deficit rose $181 billion in July, to a record $1.3 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office reported over the weekend. You know the drill by now… tax receipts are plunging while bailout spending is soaring. In budget parlance, revenues in this fiscal year are down 17% while outlays are up 21%.

That’s a $530 billion increase in spending from fiscal 2008.

The CBO still projects the government budget deficit to exceed $1.8 trillion, about four times 2008’s record $455 deficit. More to come tomorrow, when the Treasury unveils official budget numbers.

Folks, the time is now. Join us or sit on the side line like a wimp. Do something for your country, your children and their future.