Politicians blow money

If there's one area in politics where I am confident many people can agree it's that there is an extraordinary ability of American politicians to spend money.

Here's a tweet from a while back I made on the subject:

Politicians will blow money at any excuse. Best not to give them one.

— James Harris (@jstevh) May 24, 2013

So convenient to see the date, which was May 24, 2013 which shows a great way to keep up with things which is with a tweet.  And think of all those tweets that people do! Thousands and thousands of them, and where do they go?

Well some of mine can have a home here. And that one I think should be framed.

It should be taught in schools! It should be...ranting on the subject may not help. But it definitely feels good to vent on this one! As politicians talk from both sides of their mouth on the subject of spending public money. And it IS remarkable that spending HUGE sums of money is so taken for granted in political circles here in the US, even when there is hand-waving in the direction of fiscal tightening.

What I believe is actually going on is one political faction tries to cut off the money flow for some other political faction while increasing its money, so it can spend it, and lots of it.

Trillions upon trillions of dollars of public funds get spent every year.

Think about it.

Oh yeah, let's not forget, that national debt is a real thing that is on every American citizen.

We're responsible for it as Americans, but look at what people get to have most of the fun spending it away.


James Harris