Principles

Thursday 12 January 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Some politicians have them, the vast majority do not.

Freshman Sen. Rand Paul is making good on his promise to cut federal spending. The Kentucky Republican and tea-party favorite said Thursday he’s returning $500,000 to the U.S. Treasury — money from his operating budget that his office never spent.

The half million dollars represents about 16 percent of Paul’s annual budget, and he contends no senator has returned as much to taxpayers.

One of my biggest complaints about virtually every bureaucratic institution I’ve been around is the age old adage which generally sounds something like “we need to use the entire budget this year, that way won’t lose it next year.” It makes no fucking sense. What’s the use of bloated budgets if specific entities have no use for them other than simply squandering them. The only thing I can imagine is self preservation: “if we don’t spend all of our budget this year, surely someone will notice that what we do it is largely superfluous which makes many of us expendable, and we just can’t have that happen.” One has tow wonder that if Paul is able to return 16% of his annual budget, how much do the other 99 Senators and 435 Congressmen squander (in their own offices, not how much of our money do they squander with the bills they write)?

2012-01-12  »  madlibertarianguy