Lame-Duck Lawmakers

So I am at work yesterday and my phone sounds off that I have an alert. I look at the phone and the alert is Fox News. Apparently Congress has passed a stopgap budget bill 329-91. The bill is a $1 trillion dollar spending effort to avoid a government shutdown and the U.S. falling off the "fiscal cliff" as the article reads. The article also said that it should clear the Senate next week for President Obama's signature.

REALLY?????????????????? WHEN DOES THE SPENDING STOP AND THE CUTTING BEGIN??? The American economy cannot handle more spending. Throwing money after bad choices and programs is not the solution to our crisis. We need to cut spending in the right places and put people back to work. There are 20,000 shovel ready jobs just waiting for the go ahead in the plains states on the Keystone pipeline. But our jerk of a president won't let us do it. There are plenty of road construction jobs that also need to be completed. Not just in Michigan, but all the bridges built in the 50's 60's around the country all need to be repaired or replaced. We have approx 48,000 miles of interstate road ways in the U.S. There are 600,000 bridges on those highways. 200,000 of them are 50 or more years old, that is 33% that need to be fixed. It takes on average 25 workers to replace a bridge. The is 5,000,000 jobs plus the 20,000 for the oil pipeline for a total of 5,020,000 new jobs almost overnight. According to a 2009 FHWA stat it would cost $70.9 billion to fix all the bridges in the country that are classified "structurally deficient". So let’s do the math if this "stopgap" bill was used to actually employ people.

     $1,047,000,000,000 - Stopgap bill passed

-        $70,900,000,000 - Cost of bridge replacement

-      $208,832,000,000 - Workers wage for bridge construction ($20 per hour, based on 40 hours)

-          $1,600,000,000 - Aid going to Egypt

       $765,668,000,000 - Left

I really wonder where would the rest of this money go? Who cares if the government shuts down. They don’t do anything anyway expect spend more and more money. It seems like the administration is more concerned about our image overseas than our real problems here at home. If Obama is so concerned and committing to get people back to work I just gave him a way to employ the 800,000 that are out of work, plus about 4.2 million more. Obama, you say you want to raise taxes to get more money coming in? How about fixing the jobless rate. Once that is fixed you will have plenty of money coming in. Not just from payroll taxes, but from people spending the money they are making. People aren't spending as much because they do not have enough to spend. SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK. How about going after the 50% of Americans that do not pay taxes or the almost $3 billion the IRS paid out in fraudulent returns in 2011. So far Mr. President your policies have FAILED. You have FAILED. Your administrations has FAILED. 3 strikes and you're out.

Signed - Fed up voter.