We just finished the latest in over 100 episodes of “Debt Limit BS or How Government Lies Convince You to Accept Fewer Benefits While the Rich Get More.”

Being bribed by the rich, Congress does all it can get away with to widen the income/wealth/power gap between you and the rich.

One method is to tell you that federal government spending is “unsustainable,” or “out of control,” or is not “prudent,” or that the so-called federal debt is a “ticking time bomb.“

Never mind that they have been telling you the same lie for more than 80 years. While Federal Spending has increased the debt that isn’t a debt from $50 billion to $30 trillion, the nation still stands.

They lie because they are bribed and because they assume you know no better, so they can get away with it.

We all should contact our Congress people and the media and challenge them to answer a very simple question.  Perhaps that will be a step toward narrowing the gap between you and the rich and give you the benefits you deserve and the government easily can afford.

If you’re tired of the BS, give this a try.

Oh, by the way, do you remember the Gephart Rule? 

In 1979, noting the potential problems of hitting a default, Dick Gephardt imposed the “Gephardt Rule,” a parliamentary rule that deemed the debt ceiling raised when a budget was passed.

This resolved the contradiction in voting for appropriations but not voting to fund them. The rule stood until it was repealed by Congress in 1995.

Get it? When Congress voted for an appropriation, it also voted to fund them.

So, if Congress said, “We authorize spending a billion dollars on a dam,” that meant a billion dollars immediately became available to build a dam.

Makes sense to any normal person. Apparently, though, it was too logical for Congress.

In 1995, Congress said, “When we authorize spending a billion dollars to build a dam, we really don’t authorize paying a billion dollars to build the dam.”

And if that makes sense to you, you should run for Congress. Since that convulsion of childish illogic, Congress has plagued the nation with repeated debt limit crises.

Contact your Congress people and the media. If you don’t, then don’t complain about cuts to Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, and other benefits.

As long as you don’t complain, they will keep cutting.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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