With our current deficit at over 24 Trillion, I would like to see the Government vote to lower the debt ceiling instead of raising it. I can already see all the comments on this statement! Where are we going to draw the line? At what point did we say "the heck with our future generations" let's let them worry about paying for all our Government waste and fraudulent spending and giveaway programs. Why is the first thing everyone says, they will have to cut Social Security?? I feel the SS should never be cut but raised. After all, SS is money paid in by working Americans of which many were very hard-working individuals, myself included. All the money paid in for many years should have been invested. According to Google, the average rate of return on money invested in the stock market over the last almost 200 years is 10.46%. Considering the many people who die before collecting 1 cent. The investment return on the money paid in there should be way more than enough money to pay out to retired people and even have extra money. if our money would have been handled properly and not been dipped into to fund other things over the years, more than likely all retired people receiving SS benefits would be getting more money than they are receiving today. You ask where the money would come from to keep the government running. Well here is an idea. How about we shut down ALL non-essential Government programs, and stop giving away Millions and even Billions to other countries? At least till we have a balanced budget then, and only then, look at where any extra money should be spent. Don't you think the hard-working American people and retired citizens deserve a break?? A lot of that taxpayer's money ends up in some of our greedy politician's pockets and that is the reason our politicians are so eager to approve of giving a lot of the money given away. Then let's move on to what they refer to as pork. Cousin Fred gets A grant of 5 Millon a year for 5 years to try to figure out why bullfrogs croak at night, etc. Ah Da, maybe we could cut out programs like that before looking at SS money!! And how about the money we spent funding a lab in China I think everyone knows the lab ended up letting loose a virus that spread across the globe killing many innocent people. Does anyone agree we could cut funding like that? Here is a question for anyone who has an IQ over 50.t Why not cut back on Welfare programs that reward people for each kid they produce and have never worked in a day of their life and have never paid a penny into the system instead of talking about stealing it from retired folks who some have paid into the system for many years?? Even honeybees limit the number of Drones allowed in each colony. I am sure I ruffled some feathers but I think a conservative patriotic person can still voice their opinion. I see woke individuals do it every day. And maybe some fellow Patriotic Conservatives would agree with me.
Bob