Email from Our America Initiative:
Friends,
In the last 48 hours, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have announced and are hurriedly passing a federal budget for next year that they are proudly claiming will reduce the deficit by $20 Billion. $20 Billion!
Are we supposed to be impressed?? The deficit for 2013 alone is almost $700 Billion, and of course, the total debt is more than $17 TRILLION. And these folks are crowing about a “deal” that will save $20 Billion.
They just don’t get it. They spend weeks and months negotiating a deal, and declare victory when they come up with a net savings that is little more than a rounding error in the overall, unsustainable debt they have themselves imposed upon us.
We have to send a clear message to the politicians in Washington: WE’RE NOT IMPRESSED. You can help us send that message by going to Our America today and supporting our grassroots and outreach efforts to mobilize Americans for truly smaller and less costly government.
I don’t know about you, but I won’t be satisfied until they start talking about and enacting spending cuts that will actually get us to a balanced budget — and this one doesn’t even come close.
The disturbing part about all this hand-wringing over a rounding error is that it shows, once again, that virtually no one in Washington, DC, has the courage to tell the truth — and act on it. Cutting hundreds of billions from the federal budget actually isn’t that difficult. First, we must stop spending money we don’t have on foreign aid and military interventions that are NOT making us more secure. Second, we have to deal with the reality that, without reform, entitlements are promises we simply can’t keep.
Until these realities are put on the table, all of the deals and funny math the politicians are coming up with are frankly meaningless. The Our America Initiative is dedicated to the proposition that the real key to prosperity in America is freedom from a government and policies that control our lives unnecessarily. Continuing to saddle us with debt and, in the process, destroying our economy are the greatest threats to liberty and freedom that we face from our politicians today.
Please join me in saying “Enough is enough”. Go to Our America today and help us speak out for the millions of Americans who understand that a nation that is bankrupt cannot be a nation of free people.
Thank you for your support — and for your belief in real liberty!
Gov. Gary Johnson
Honorary Chairman