Malignant Liberal Idiocy

H/T to Debbie at Right Truth for pointing this out in her great piece, “We Will Ruin Alaska… (No We Won’t.)”

FOXNews.com has the disturbing news, which should be viewed as a symptom of the disease that is our current Congress:

WASHINGTON — The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere.

Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly concluded — with a prod from the construction industry — that having $9 billion less to spend on highways could create a pre-election specter of thousands of lost jobs.

Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel.

Thank God for rare voices of congressional sanity:

Congress should first reduce spending on pet projects, known as earmarks, argued Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. “I’m not going to let the Senate spend all this money when nobody is looking, especially when we refuse to stop wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on earmarks.”

It is really too bad Senator DeMint didn’t run for president, but back to the issue of the congressional vermin and their ridiculous abuse of taxpayers. I was perusing the FY 2008 budget and noticed a tiny bit of bureaucratic waste here and there:

• Department of Education - $58.6 billion
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - $44.4 billion
• Environmental Protection Agency - $7.8 billion
• Department of Homeland Security - $43.2 billion (including the $28 million thrown away on a virtual fence pilot program which didn’t work as anyone with a brain could have predicted.)
• Department of Labor - $52.3 billion
• Department of Treasury - $11.1 billion for the IRS alone

Let’s see, where could one look to find $9 billion for highway construction projects? It is a tough one, just ask the personal power hungry libiots in Congress. No, the answer is not “raise the gasoline tax,” but if you guessed that, you too could be a senator or representative. The Departments of Education, HUD, Labor, and the EPA should not even exist or at least should all be slashed by 50%. Either solution would eliminate $80 to $160 billion in wasted taxpayer dollars and for those of you in Congress, that is more than the $9 billion shortfall.

Problem solved! All that needs to be done now is to get the federal government to get its filthy paws out of the cookie jars of the American citizens and stick to its responsibilities. Easier said than done, I realize, but the waste that is Capitol Hill cannot be exposed often enough! De-centralize dis-functions the federal government should not have. Let individual states deal with education and similar issues. Stop taking our money and distributing it among your cronies and victim classes to buy votes. Implement The Fair Tax or a flat tax and cut the IRS down to a reasonable size.

Our leaders, as pathetic as most of them are, should follow the “KISS” principle and Keep It Simple STUPID!