McConnell:
Dear Speaker Boehner and Sen. McConnell,
Congress has now passed the $1.1 trillion spending bill, which we needed to keep the government running. There is high probability that Pres.
Obama will sign the bill into law.
As the new Congress convenes in January with the Republican majority, it will be time to take the junk out of the Spending Bill.
As presently constituted, the Spending Bill provides funding for Homeland Security through February 27, 2015. The relatively short funding time was included by the Republicans in an obviously misguided effort to apply some sort of limit on Pres. Obama's amnesty program. With the new Congress in January, it will be time to face up to the fact that some drastically realistic action will be needed. For starters, funding for any amnesty involvement should be immediately terminated. Simply stated, the House must revoke any amnesty spending in the original bill, and the Senate must concur. In all probability Pres. Obama will veto the new bill, and it will be up to Congress to make every effort to override the veto. If that doesn't work, look for other ways to kill the amnesty program.
The Spending Bill also provided funding through September 30 for the Defense Department, the Department of Education, the IRS and Healthcare. We need Department of Defense spending and little effort should be made to find pork therein in order to eliminate it. But, any big money that stands out as pork should obviously be addressed and pushed out through a new bill from both the House and Senate. Pres. Obama will likely sign that bill, because he generally is opposed to military spending.
Handling the Department of Education funding is simpler. Eliminate it all. The Department of Education has done more to harm this country than many other actions of government. Defunding it will essentially eliminate it. Pres. Obama will likely veto, in which case you can consider overriding the veto, or if that is not practical, make some concessions that might be more palatable to the President.
Our tax system is abominable, but there's no question that we need a government department to collect taxes and there's no justification for eliminating completely the IRS. The IRS should be funded as necessary to do is its job as a tax collector, but try to eliminate funding for any political involvement that it seems to have undertaken in the past.
When we are talking about Healthcare, we are talking about Obamacare, which is a socialistic program basically involving redistribution of wealth and making healthcare more available to the underprivileged, under the guise of an entitlement rather than welfare, which it is. Healthcare is available to everybody in the country through private sector operations of hospitals, clinics, doctors, etc. Obamacare only juggles around the money.
We don't need that. Health insurance companies are prepared to do the job.
Obamacare has not yet forced them out of business. If healthcare insurance companys' charges appear high, they are only a reflection of charges from the healthcare industry, which are presently bloated through public attempts to obtain maximum service with minimum cost by way of government largess.
There are various ways that Congress can modify the healthcare program to make it more amenable to our Democratic/Republic financing. One way is to increase copayments. How about 50%? If you want to spend two days in the hospital, it might cost somebody $3000. If you had to pay $1500, you might think again before deciding on a hospital visit when you could be treated cheaper at home.
All in all, the new Congress should hack away at the $1.1 trillion Spending Bill and get it down to a manageable size by eliminating, as I said before, "junk".
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