Congressman Fred Upton was appointed recently to serve on the 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, a bipartisan, bicameral panel charged with finding at least $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade. The St. Joseph Republican discussed the committee, spending and job creation during a Friday morning (August 26th) interview on WWMT NewsChannel 3. To view his comments, click here.
Mr. Upton,
Here’s a note for the suggestion box on deficit reduction…how about a reduction in these bi-partisan, bi-polar, etc…committees like this because they’re not gonna do dick to fix the problem, but since you guys are gonna spend your time and my tax dollars “talking” about it here’s a couple nuggets to chew on without the barbeque sauce…
First, quit spending millions of dollars having hearings and then prosecuting folks for perjury for lying about who injected whose a$$ with steroids. I’m sure it seems important, but when it costs millions on the right hand when the left hand is borrowing billions from China to pay for other wasteful sh!t going on, maybe we might wanna rethink the priorities list just a smidge. Nobody seemed to care when all these home runs saved baseball after fans were pi$$ed off over the shutdown of the game over the last collective bargaining dispute. Now that they are making billions again, these folks are finding religion and want my public servants and my tax dollars to police it…are ya nucking futz? These players are millionaires working for billionaires…they should have the cash to clean up their own own mess in their own sport for their own league without my tax dollars to pay you and the bureaus and agencies you task later for indicting and investigating lying under oath countless manhours and dollars, and congressional reports….I guess I care more about spending money on illegal drugs coming across our borders hurting our kids rather than investigating some self important millionaire jock wanting to extend his career a few years–but maybe that’s just me.
Secondly, quit pretending to care about all the S&L bailouts and other companies too big to fail and all the bonuses exec’s of these companies that made all the sh!tty decisions that are backfilling to your respective re-election campaign funds. I mean how do in one breath rationalize contractual obligations to give these exec’s bonuses, when screwing over investors (including alot of folks’s retirement funds) and bondholders in bankruptcy…I mean I understand the too big to fail, but can you at least not reward the a$$holes responsible for causing the failure while we borrow money from China (that we and generations down the road will be paying for). .I mean can we at least save the additional facade and manhours of all the pretend concern for investigations and hearings and testimony, and just go right to the part where neither party is gonna do a damn thing? I mean how’s that “the buck stops here” comment working out over that whole AIG bailout fiasco going as just one example?
Mr. Upton, if you and the other folks in that 12 man thinktank bring some resolution to just those two little chestnuts….stay tuned….I gotta whole fricken list.
I dunno….sometimes there are simpler solutions to fixing the source of the deficit problems…like maybe prospects of a Category 4 hitting Washington DC having the same potential effect as an angry child shaking the bejesus out of a very messy picture on the old Etcha Sketch….if we could only find a way to have old Irina target the bureaucrats…it’d be the difference between a natural disaster and Karma.