I would vote for ANY candidate that would PROMISE and FULFIL that promise to CUT Government waste.
Scott Walker the current Milwaukee Country Supervisor is the ONLY politician who ran on CUTTING waste around here and actually DID it. He is coming under fire now from those who DO NOT PAY TAXES for cutting some wasteful entitlement programs. He's my hero and I can't vote for him because I do not live in Milw. County.
2007-10-25 12:26:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Do you realize the BILLIONS this country would save simply by cutting programs that overlap each other? I couldn't agree more. I've asked questions like this many times and there isn't a person who doesn't agree.... Yet we sit back and watch the world go 'round... doing nothing.
Remember, Congress has the power and this is something to take into deep consideration when voting on the Congressional level as well.
2007-10-25 12:38:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Who doesnt pay taxes? Everytime you spend any kind of money you pay taxes. State sales tax. Also what you consider wasteful and what other people consider wasteful are 2 very differant things. The war in Iraq oh wait its not even a war anymore since we declared victory. Ok the policing of Iraq is costing us billions upon billions of dollars that we dont really have. Tax cuts for the bill gates of the world , well yes when you consider a ceo makes 22 million a year and a guy working in the plant would be lucky and i do mean lucky to make 30 thousand a year taking 2 million from the ceo isnt going to hurt him but taking 2 thousand from the guy working in the plant hurts him.
I already have heard all of the arguements for this also well the guy in the plant just needed to go to college , funny thing at least 70 percent of college grads make under 50k a year. Sometimes well most of the time becoming a ceo or similar is more about who you know and plain old fashion luck. I did say sometimes because some people actually deserve that although i dont think anybody really deserves 22 million a year.
Also i would like to say wasteful entitlement programs.. Well some people actually need those, some people have nobody and work their *** off to feed 3 kids, Now there are hundreds of thousands who abuse the system, but whos problem is that isnt that the goverment for not being a little more choosy on who they let have so called programs?
Maybe people need to stop acting so superior to other people and try to fix the problem. Try to help the blind guy who has no family get into some housing and foodstamps. And find the drug dealer who is driving the mercedes and kick him out of the housing projects. I dont think its the programs that are wasteful , i think its the people who manage them.
2007-10-25 12:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by phillip 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am starting to get a good feeling that Huckabee is the best chance for getting spending under control in Washington. He has some very unique ideas in the works for future budgets and solving both the SS crisis/boomers and the deficit . Hopefully he will unveil this one before he has been buried by the big money of the same ol same ol others. I wish he'd get these great proposals out in the open NOW and not wait any longer.
2007-10-25 20:23:51 · answer #3 · answered by Gabriel Archangel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately we live in a representative democracy. And in This kind of system one man really can't make a difference. We get noble men bent on reform in Washington from time to time. Then they butt their heads against the brick wall of the corrupt bureaucracy. They rant ant scream and cajol and try to persquade the system to change, but they find they are powerless to change it. Then as the saying goes, If you can't beat em, join em. They cave in and become part of the very corruption they set out to reform. Then They are there to corrupt the next set of idealists who come to town. It is a story as old as politics itself. Only in a Tyranny could one man change the system. And we do not trust Tyrants. So we are pretty much stuck with the bureaucratic quagmire of corruption greed and waste that we have.
2007-10-25 13:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by James L 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe you should rethink about trying to be involved in politics in any way. greed and corruption is the answer,regardless of party or level of politics. That is the whole problem in politics,we don't control the politicians and they do not represent our interests. It is rare you will find one that does. Think of the money spent on a campaign to win a job that could never pay you back the money spent getting elected. Oh wait a minute,it is not their money,they were already bought.
2007-10-25 12:36:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The higher the level the more money there is available to "convince" the politician of the position they should take.
Why would they cut off their own path to wealth?
2007-10-25 12:30:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you are talking about the same politicians who voted for an automatic pay raise every year...we can't expect anything from them to care for us...we need to get rid of all the dinosaur politicians and start with new people...
2007-10-25 12:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by turntable 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because it takes a lot of courage and back up support or they just want go against the flow. We are partly responsible for not letting those who try know that they are supported, or that's what I think.
2007-10-25 14:52:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Special interest groups finance politicians re-election campaigns and they have to be paid back. Special interest groups are running the country we're paying for it.
2007-10-25 12:34:38 · answer #9 · answered by nosillenhoj 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
McCain is against all special interest projects , and Senator DeMint from SC , is against the "pork" spending
2007-10-25 12:34:26 · answer #10 · answered by Insensitively Honest 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋