The senate is poised to approve another $1 trillion in additional spending

  After a test vote earlier this week that won approval 60-36, the senate looks ready to approve an additional $1.1 trillion in additional spending. A final vote could come as early as tomorrow.

  This bill would increase spending in many federal agencies by 10% and comes during an “unprecedented” economic crisis that one would think would mean less money should be available to these agencies. We are constantly told that we must sacrifice, the least our government could do would be to sacrifice also. I would suggest that if the administration is unwilling to cut money from the budgets of these agencies that the least the administration could do would be to freeze the budget of these agencies at the current level. That would be the responsible thing to do, but this administration is not responsible.

  The additional $1 trillion would also provide a pay raise for federal officials. Again, shouldn’t these officials be asked to sacrifice? Also included in the funding bill is more help to the automakers, evidentally the bailout and federal takeover og General Motors and Chrysler didn’t work, so more money is going to be pumped into the struggling automakers while ordinary Americans are left wondering why the government is ignoring their problems.

  But the bill gets even worse as it also overturns the ban on federal funding for abortion and needle exchange programs in the District of Columbia. The senate is using this end of the year appropriations legislation to ensure that its agencies and employees are taken care of, as well as forwarding two liberal ideals– abortion and needle exchanges– at a time when the government should be doing the same thing that average Americans are doing– cutting back.