Ron Kind Against Government Spending, Kind Of
Congressman Ron Kind has begun an effort to demonstrate to voters that he is a defender of fiscal responsibility in the House of Representatives. Yesterday, he released a statement reminding voters that he is returning part of his pay, and that he opposes earmark spending.
That much is true. Furthermore, Congressman Kind has also avoided using federal money to support his travels, though many members of the House do engage in that sort of spending.
These sorts of savings, however, are tiny in comparison to the huge, record-breaking military budget that the House of Representatives passed in 2009 to pay for this year’s war expenses. Ron Kind voted in favor of that spending, easily swamping the little savings he worked for around the edges. The federal budget is much bigger than just a few earmarks, or a portion of a Representative’s salary, and voter evaluation of Representative Kind’s fiscal responsibility needs to encompass this bigger picture, not just the posture suggested by a few convenient talking points.
Congressman Kind,
According to most authorities, the current health care bill will NOT save money, but will, instead, increase the national debt by trillions of dollars. As a fiscal conservative, you MUST vote against the health care bills that are on the table or will be on the table, until the process is restarted and it becomes a true bipartisan effort.
As a Democrat, you MUST vote against these bills because passage will most likely destroy the economy, followed by the country itself. If the country survives, passage of any of these bills into law will usher in somewhere between 30 and 50 years of uninterrupted Republican rule. This will destroy the Democratic Party, as the people will be SO ANGRY about the way in which these laws have been passed, that they will vote almost every Democrat from office, at every level (national and state).
An update: Ron Kind proposes an amendment to cut the no-need Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle from the defense budget…. and a congressional majority rejects his call.