Gregory Jaczko and Harry Reid have stopped the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository project after taxpayers have invested 15 billion dollars in it to secure safe storage. Our nuclear wastes are being stored in 104 sites around the country at a high cost that is unnecessary and wasteful. Upkeep of these sites coupled with security of each is what Reid and Jaczko have for us. This is a glaring example of how things are going wrong in this country. Common sense is sidetracked in order to preserve political interests. It is one of many examples of how the good of the whole is compromised for the good of a few...this one being the reelection of Harry Reid. Too much power in the hands of too few. That's Congress. That is congress without term limits.
The same thing happened with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There wasn't an MBA on Wall Street that didn't know the consequences of the toxic mortgage orgy that has brought this economy to it's knees. But Fannie Mae and the likes of James Johnson used political favors to sway our "political leadership" to do just that.
Using the Social Security Trust Fund to fund government programs is another example of politics leading us to blindly dance and spend ourselves into financial bankruptcy.
Mitt Romney says that all federal programs must be evaluated in terms of whether the outlays are important enough to borrow the money from China to pay for them. This is a flame of common sense where that fire has long been absent. I am hopeful that Romney's approach will be repeated and expanded on. This country must use common sense with healthy fundamentals. If we fail to change the way our government does business, borrowing alomost half of every dollar we spend from foriegn governments, we will find ourselves without a place to call home.
Getting the Yucca Mountain project back on track is one of the things we must do. Refunding the Social Security Trust fund and walling off it's funds from being used for federal programs is another even more important goal we must accomplish. Romney's evaluation of all spending according to a new set of financially sane national priorities will lead us toward financial strength. Only then can we get back on the road to growing our economy and providing opportunities for the now unemployed. Currently, our political system is so mired in personal agenda that our leaders are unable to address those problems, as has been seen over and over again of late. America is drifting toward the waterfall of insolvency. Romney offers a fresh direction, one from which we never should have veered in the first place. It is high time someone stood up and said it.
The same thing happened with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There wasn't an MBA on Wall Street that didn't know the consequences of the toxic mortgage orgy that has brought this economy to it's knees. But Fannie Mae and the likes of James Johnson used political favors to sway our "political leadership" to do just that.
Using the Social Security Trust Fund to fund government programs is another example of politics leading us to blindly dance and spend ourselves into financial bankruptcy.
Mitt Romney says that all federal programs must be evaluated in terms of whether the outlays are important enough to borrow the money from China to pay for them. This is a flame of common sense where that fire has long been absent. I am hopeful that Romney's approach will be repeated and expanded on. This country must use common sense with healthy fundamentals. If we fail to change the way our government does business, borrowing alomost half of every dollar we spend from foriegn governments, we will find ourselves without a place to call home.
Getting the Yucca Mountain project back on track is one of the things we must do. Refunding the Social Security Trust fund and walling off it's funds from being used for federal programs is another even more important goal we must accomplish. Romney's evaluation of all spending according to a new set of financially sane national priorities will lead us toward financial strength. Only then can we get back on the road to growing our economy and providing opportunities for the now unemployed. Currently, our political system is so mired in personal agenda that our leaders are unable to address those problems, as has been seen over and over again of late. America is drifting toward the waterfall of insolvency. Romney offers a fresh direction, one from which we never should have veered in the first place. It is high time someone stood up and said it.
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