I recently read that the U.S. government set a new one-month record for spending, $428, 894,000,000 to be relatively exact.  (After all, what's a few hundred thousand among friends, right?)   I had a very faint hope that things might turn out differently this time around, but deep down, I knew they wouldn't.  Even though the Republicans now have control of the House, Senate, and the White House, they are still spending money as if their lives depended on it, money stolen from taxpayers, or borrowed from foreign entities.

The federal debt is so close to $20 trillion , one might as well call it that - $20 trillion.  I got out my trusty little calculator last week to do a little figuring.  What if the geniuses in DC decided they were going to dedicate one billion dollars a day to pay off the $20 trillion?  Now, I know, I'm just referring to principal here.  Any way, my calculator didn't provide enough digits to do the computation, so I had to resort to the old fashioned way - pencil and paper.  If my math skills serve me correctly, spending one billion dollars a day to pay down the $20 trillion would take roughly 55 years.  Take a look at the U.S. debt clock in real time.  Notice that it increases in $10,000 increments about every 1.3 seconds.

So, let me get this straight.  We (those of us who actually work for a living) pay members of the federal legislative branch about $174,000 a year  to do this:  spend $428.9 billion in ONE MONTH.

What I would like to do is to recruit somebody, anybody to go to Washington and take a chainsaw to the federal budget.  But he must first learn how to say one tiny word:  No!  'No!' to any more invading,, bombing and occupying nations 7,000 miles from the good ole USA.  'No!' to any more money for Planned Parenthood, that most notorious gang of baby butchers.  'No' to paying any more corporate farmers NOT to plant wheat, or NOT to plant corn, or NOT to plant cotton, or NOT to milk cows!  'No!' to congressional pensions of any size!  I'm not looking for a 'yes' man.  I'm looking for a 'No!' man!