So... it's Friday, October 30, 2015. I haven't updated my
blog since September 17th...
As previously noted, I've been spending my
"blogging" time on Facebook.
Facebook is good and bad. Good in the sense that I get a larger,
wider audience; bad in the sense that when people (particularly those I count
as "the good guys") disappoint me by refusing to acknowledge reality... it hurts.
(*SIGH*)
I hate everyone... or so it must appear at times.
(*CHUCKLE*)
Well... being 100% honest... I kinda do.
I see our country going down the tubes... and as if the
Sheeple demographic weren't enough to depress me, I'm also forced to
acknowledge that even most of my own "allies" in thought and basic
philosophy are unwilling to accept the honest to God truth that there's simply
NO ONE in politics whom we can trust.
I'm not gonna reiterate - let alone re-post - all the posts
and comments I've made on Facebook over the past days and weeks concerning the
budget deal that just cleared the House yesterday... (the REPUBLICAN House)...
and the Senate (the REPUBLICAN Senate) early this morning...
(In the middle of the night in fact...)
(*SIGH*)
But I will tell you this:
I no longer trust Ted Cruz... or Rand Paul... or Mike
Lee.
These men represent the "Tea Party" in the U.S.
Senate... and the galling truth is that they didn't even mount a serious
attempt to filibuster - and thus stop - the "Bipartisan Budget Act of
2015" from becoming law.
Rand Paul straight out lied to us - deliberately deceived us; tried to pull a fast
one by cynically and deceitfully advancing the illusion that he was trying to
stop the budget bill from passing. He wasn't. My various Facebook posts on the issue
should prove the truth of what I'm saying to all but the most partisan
"Paul Lovers" among you.
And "my" guy... Ted Cruz... I have no idea why
he didn't do more to try and stop this bill that he railed against... railed
again but didn't filibuster against.
Mike Lee? I don't know. I just spend five minutes on the
phone with a member of his staff and came away understanding no more than I did
before the exchange. The staffer will be "passing my comments on to
the Senator."
(*SMIRK*)
And over in the House... we have Paul Ryan. Yea.
(*SNORT*)
I'm just totally disheartened... and disgusted.
ONE... MORE... TIME...
A Heritage Foundation analysis finds that federal
spending in 2016 was already expected to climb by more than $200 billion. This
was to be a 5 percent rise in outlays in a year when inflation is barely above
zero.
Under this budget deal, the spending caps rise by an
extra $80 billion over two years, the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)
slush fund receives another $147 billion in “emergency spending,” and the debt
limit is suspended through March 15, 2017.
So now we are going to see a $430 billion hike in
spending in 2016. That’s close to a12 percent spending spree.
The caps and sequester are dead. All fiscal discipline is
tossed out the window.
There are no spending reforms, no program eliminations,
no new caps to stop the blizzard of borrowing that has lifted the debt ceiling
into the near $20 trillion stratosphere.
(*END EXCERPT*)
Well, folks; that's that. This is what a REPUBLICAN
Congress has given us. This is what REPUBLICAN Senators like Rand Paul, Ted
Cruz, Mike Lee, and that fake, phony, fraud Marco Rubio have FAILED to effectively
even ATTEMPT to derail.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
To those of you who only read my blog entries... please
start reading my Facebook posts.
For those of you who only read my Facebook posts and
commentary... please bookmark my blog and check it out every so often.
Several of my friends on Facebook are... bringing me
down. This observation isn't a preface to a "bashing," but simply an
explanation for why I'm probably gonna be concentrating on my blog postings
rather than Facebook postings for awhile. Frankly... it's less painful to not be
disappointed by people than it is to be unread by people.
(*RUEFUL SMILE*)
So... to those friends... (and you know who you are)...
please don't take either this post or any "pull-back" from Facebook
interaction as a "diss." It's not. It's simply... mental
self-preservation.
Truth be told, I'd probably be better off if I were tune
out of "the news" totally - for awhile at least. Clearly these hammer
blows... these betrayals but "my" presidential candidates... by
"my" Senators... are having a negative effect upon my ability to
"chat" with even my friends without upsetting either myself, my
friends, or both.
To those on Facebook who have managed - bothered - to
slog through this perhaps self-indulgent ramble... thanks for that; thanks for
being my Facebook friends.
Anyway... that's it for now.
BILL
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