Fiscal Irresponsibility in Government and the Current Financial crisis

What part of fiscal responsibility don't the idiots in Congress (especially Congress) and the White House Get; it is not rocket science. Wouldn't it be nice if we could spend recklessly and then print off our own money to cover our debts (and in the process vote ourselves pay-raises while so many are unemployed) - unbelievable! Last time I checked if I were to spend that way I'd be out on the street and/or in jail for fraud. It is time to kick out ALL of the scoundrels (regardless of party) who voted for too much pork spending and start over with only true fiscal conservatives in office. It is also time to cut ALL foreign aid and reroute it to paying off debt. Other nations who are really our friends will continue to be even after cutting off the aid.
It is also time to cut our losses with Social Security and get rid of it completely. It is a leech on the system and bad for the economy. It is the responsibility of individuals to save for retirement, not all taxpayers. This recession would have never been so bad had the federal government kept their hands out of the housing markets and banking industries. If people can't afford a home, there is no right to being able to have one. This is one huge reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are insolvent. This led to the huge housing crisis more than any other factor. The banks by and large were forced to lend to people who were not mature or financially capable enough to afford the home they bought. Thus artificially inflating housing prices to the point where very few could afford them and then the bottom fell out when the adjustable rate mortgage interest rates went up. I blame federal government incompetence and vote-pandering for most of this financial crisis and we as Americans must hold them to account.
It seems that President Obama doesn’t get that keeping taxes lower will help the economy – he needs to lobby Congress to keep the Bush tax-cuts in effect. Especially now that we are all going to go into even more debt since Obama-care (gag me) passed the rubber-stamp Congress. The economy is not going to respond well to even more deficit spending and tax-burden for Americans. The politicians who parroted the idea of social security (tax-slavery) said it would never become insolvent or a burden to the tax-payer either – we all know what has happened with that mess.
The education “stimulus” package parroted by the president and passed by the Congress was nothing more than a blatant kick-back for supporting the democrats in their ascent to power. Teachers are paid so little because there are so many people that go into that field. Furthermore, most of them only work for part of the year anyway. I think it is time to make school more like a full-time job and have it last all year long with fewer breaks in between. Then and only then would salary increases for teachers be warranted. Instead of bailing out union thugs it is time to cut the federal government's size and influence tremendously. This would further cut the deficit and in tandem with lowering taxes would stimulate growth. It is also time to get rid of unions and let the market decide wages and benefits – like it should be.
Come November, more fiscal conservatives will be in power and keep the “progressives” (i.e. socialists or “communist lites” in disguise) more at bay. Those republicans who do gain power had better really be conservatives – not democrat “lites” though, because we Americans are fed up with the double-talk and lies coming from our leaders. No more bailouts, no more stimulus packages; only trimming the fat at the federal government level (except the military, which needs its budget increased) and reducing regulation and tax-burdens for people and corporations will do. Bailing corporations out is communistic and thus anti-American – no corporation is too big to fail. There are always risks and rewards for creating businesses and bailing some out sets a bad precedent for future mismanagement and abuse by CEO’s and boards of directors. They will take more reckless risks than are warranted because they know they’ll be bailed out if they go bankrupt.
The only jobs that have been created from this massive “bailout mania” are more federal government jobs – the ones that need to be trimmed down dramatically. The artificially high wages and benefits packages being doled out at the expense of the tax-payer interferes with the true balance of the markets and thus hinders job growth and creation. In the private sector, businesses have to be fiscally astute to maintain higher wages and benefits packages – not lobby for more tax-payer money.
Economic and military superiority are the true ways to ensure continuity of our ideals of freedom and it is time to get back to having drive and determination in the face of adversity. I am not ashamed to be American at all and we do not owe the world apologies for being who we are. If anything, many foreign governments owe us apologies for slandering us to gain political favor in their own nations. The real evil governments were the Soviets, the Chinese communists, the Iranian pseudo-theocracy, North Korea’s Communist government and others who espouse those types of archaic beliefs; not us.