Last week, the United States congress voted in favor of a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, and many are calling for the head of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, or as some refer to him: John Boehner Ryan.
What’s interesting is that it was doubtful the more than 2,000-page bill was read at all. This is unfortunate considering that it was more than $1 trillion. It’s like the Affordable Care Act: 2,000 pages and nobody read it and now it’s creating a wave of destruction to many Americans.
Kentucky Republican Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Rand Paul told a New York radio station (via The Hill) over the weekend that he voted against it and said “my biggest complaint is that I have no idea what kind of things they stuck in the bill.”
Paul, who has performed better in the last two GOP debates but is still stuck in the bottom of the polls, noted that he voted against the bill because he usually doesn’t support “these enormous bills that no one has a chance to read.”
“We were given it yesterday or the day before the bill came forward, and so this is not a way to run government,” added Paul. “It’s a part of the reason why government is broke.”
The GOP senator accused his Republican colleagues in the House and Senate of being as complicit as the Democrats for this kind of legislation and blames both parties for the mess the country is in.
“Once again this came not at the behest of just the Democrats,” he said. “It came at the behest of right-wing Republicans who want military spending and left-wing Democrats who want welfare spending, and that’s the dirty little secret.
Paul concluded that he is concerned about the rising national debt and urged the Congress to only spend money it has. “I think we should balance our budget and only spend what comes in,” he said.
This is the same bill that included the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which left laws that allowed authorities to enhance their surveillance methods that violate Americans’ privacy.
It’s a sadistic, corrupted government we have as a people, and everyone is far too afraid to take it on. Our “representatives” only represent their political interests, and our constituents that see this are afraid, jailed, or have no balls to take back what is ours. The People supersede the government, and the people need to take it back now to spare their children having to do so through sacrificing their lives.