How Did We Get a National Debt of $14.4 Trillion?

Congress gave us a debt of $14.4 trillion which increases at the rate of $4 billion a day. Here are just a few of the abuses of the Constitution of which Congress is guilty.

It is hoped everyone is sitting down when reading this.
Congress spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly. Congress appropriates $147 million a year to subsidize Brazilian cotton farmers.

Congress spent $3.6 million to fund a study of the sex lives of dope-smoking, menstruating monkeys.
Congress paid $500,000 to paint a salmon on an Alaska Airlines passenger jet.

Congress appropriates $6.9 billion a year for the National Science Foundation where they fund such research as that which revealed the amazing fact that sick shrimp do not perform as well on stamina tests as do healthy shrimp.

Citizens Against Government Waste's pig book shows Congress spent $16,547,558,748. on pork projects last year.

In Sen. Tom Coburn's Waste Book 2010, which lists 100 spending projects, he shows that $1.5 million was spent to spruce up apartments in Shreveport, La. before they were torn down.

All this spending – every penny of it – and trillions more which is not here listed – has one thing in common: It is all unconstitutional as outside the scope of the powers delegated to Congress in the Constitution. Congress has no constitutional authority to spend money on these projects.

So! It was Congress' unconstitutional spending which put us in the mess we are in today.

And now we have the big push for a 'Balanced Budget Amendment' to the Constitution. The wording of this proposed Amendment would ultimately 'legitimise' all of the spending abuses above and trillions more. This is a very dangerous proposal and must be defeated.

Next we come to the 'Debt Ceiling' bill just passed. Apart from the question(s) of the legality of the spending, this bill creates a 'Super Congress'. Once again, this is totally unconstitutional. So it appears that Speaker John Boehner's word about no bill that is unconstitutional will pass the House was just rhetoric.