THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT HOAX
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Your latest email blast to IL 6th District constituents "15 Trillion" concerning the US national debt hitting 15 trillion dollars set off my sophism detector like a geiger counter at the melted down Fukushima Nuclear plant. Sophism, as you've become a practiced master of, is the use of false arguments to deceive people. The enormous falsity presented was that our 15 trillion dollar debt is the fault of the Congressional Democrats who nixed your November 18th Republican vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment.
What you don't tell your constituents is that a balanced budget amendment doesn't actually balance the budget, it merely "requires" Congress and the President to do so. Yet you already have that power and never, ever, utilize it for a number of reasons. You and your colleagues have been too preoccupied enacting trillions of dollars in tax cuts for your wealthy base of supporters. You know that some of those tax cuts will end up in you campaign coffers as a reward for your generous tax legislation. You also have given a blank check to the war party for endless trillions for their foolish and self destructive wars without a peep of complaint or oversight. That money rathole is sacred.
What you don't tell your constituents is that your amendment would allow a deficit if both houses agree by a three-fifths vote.
What you don't tell your constituents is that your amendment would allow a deficit by just a mere majority for a "serious military threat to national security"; and given our propensity for endless belligerency around the world, when is there not?
What you didn't tell your constituents is that from 2000 to 2006 you were the Republican Whip and floor leader in the Illinois state Senate, a state that just happens to have a balanced budget provision in its state constitution and also a colossal debt. Illinois, like many other states that have a balanced budget provision, gets along by cooking the books on expected revenues and expenses, or simply stops funding its pension obligations or paying its bills from desperate small business vendors till the next fiscal year begins. How easily you forget.
Sir, in these desperate times with 40 million without adequate health care, with 45 million subsisting on food stamps and 49 million living at or near poverty, we could use more than just additional dollars to begin solving our problems. We need Congressmen who will begin talking sense.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District resident
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
Your latest email blast to IL 6th District constituents "15 Trillion" concerning the US national debt hitting 15 trillion dollars set off my sophism detector like a geiger counter at the melted down Fukushima Nuclear plant. Sophism, as you've become a practiced master of, is the use of false arguments to deceive people. The enormous falsity presented was that our 15 trillion dollar debt is the fault of the Congressional Democrats who nixed your November 18th Republican vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment.
What you don't tell your constituents is that a balanced budget amendment doesn't actually balance the budget, it merely "requires" Congress and the President to do so. Yet you already have that power and never, ever, utilize it for a number of reasons. You and your colleagues have been too preoccupied enacting trillions of dollars in tax cuts for your wealthy base of supporters. You know that some of those tax cuts will end up in you campaign coffers as a reward for your generous tax legislation. You also have given a blank check to the war party for endless trillions for their foolish and self destructive wars without a peep of complaint or oversight. That money rathole is sacred.
What you don't tell your constituents is that your amendment would allow a deficit if both houses agree by a three-fifths vote.
What you don't tell your constituents is that your amendment would allow a deficit by just a mere majority for a "serious military threat to national security"; and given our propensity for endless belligerency around the world, when is there not?
What you didn't tell your constituents is that from 2000 to 2006 you were the Republican Whip and floor leader in the Illinois state Senate, a state that just happens to have a balanced budget provision in its state constitution and also a colossal debt. Illinois, like many other states that have a balanced budget provision, gets along by cooking the books on expected revenues and expenses, or simply stops funding its pension obligations or paying its bills from desperate small business vendors till the next fiscal year begins. How easily you forget.
Sir, in these desperate times with 40 million without adequate health care, with 45 million subsisting on food stamps and 49 million living at or near poverty, we could use more than just additional dollars to begin solving our problems. We need Congressmen who will begin talking sense.
Respectfully yours,
Walt Zlotow
IL Sixth District resident
posted by Walt Zlotow at 3:39 AM
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