I am in DC for the first time in my life.  Never before have I felt so patriotic, we are living in a great society, food is plentiful, we have blue skies, green grass, a stable economy (in comparison to many other nations) I can put gas in my car at any time.  Things are great.  Then I watched the US House of Representatives for 30 minutes from the gallery.  That’s all it took to make me so upset with our government I had to leave.  Never before have I been so convinced that democrats are truly ruining this great country.  The source of my anger lies in the introduction of Amendment 13 (PDF Link) of the  H.R. 5136, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. The overshadowing subject of this bill is revision to the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.  But this is what not upsets me.

When I think of H.R. 5136 is about one thing: National Defense.  Everything and anything belonging within this bill should directly relate to the security and defense of this great country.  Treatment of our soldiers, new planes, ships, the naming of destroyers, new medical treatments for GIs, Benifits for GIs’ families, Free lunches for public schools.  Wait…. what? What does subsidized school lunches for America’s poor children have to do with National Defense?  Well according to Amendment 13, a lot.  The on the floor arguments mentioned that these children are subjected to eating filling but unhealthy high calorie foods as they are too poor to eat finer foods, as such, fat children are too fat to serve in the military, a major issue towards our national security.

This is what is wrong with Democrats.  They choose to throw $1,000,000 WE DON’T HAVE towards an already failing school system which provides fattening lunches to our children, all while they kill PE classes which teaches children to be healthy.   A few comments in bullet points, as I am so angry right now I can’t form coherent sentences:

  1. Fast food restaurants need to stop taking SNAP (AKA Food Stamps).  Everyone knows that it is cheaper to cook at home than to eat out.  Perhaps we should teach these poor people how to cook rice.  We have plenty of food at the super market, it just needs to be cooked!  Also here’s another tip: the leftovers can be sent with the child to school the next day for lunch.
  2. I love how in the context of Amendment 13, they also made the case that before WWII many of the recruits were undernourished… AKA “We can’t cut this failing program because it is making our kids to fat, if we do that, we will have undernourished kids! Let’s just throw more money at it!”
  3. I mourned Reagan when he died, I still remember where I was when I saw the news.  I’ll never mourn Carter.  I hate that asshole, he’s a pansy peanut farmer with no balls who let Iran trample all over us.  Did I mention he is responsible for the creation of the Department of Education?  FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE NO PART IN THE FUNDING OR OVERSIGHT OF EDUCATION. IT SHOULD BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATES.
  4. I am just pissed about the sneakiness of the system.  Yesterday I saw a $1,000,000.00 amendment get folded into a larger bill that was a shoe in for the democrats. There were no more than 10 representatives on the floor.  I would have never known about it if I had not sat there and watched it for myself.
  5. If republicans can’t beat the democrats in a majority vote for the overall bill, I think they need to make an effort show up in force and  block every single amendment within that bill that is nominated by the democrats.  Two outcomes are possible: A) The democrats will never show as all democrats are lazy or B) The democrats will show up and we will finally have a congress which is active and has to vote on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE.