Spending Bill Includes Another 2% Raise for Government Workers

In the midst of a recession and the Democrats in the Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with dramatically increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans' programs. Having almost no money and having to borrow most of this funding did not slow the Democrats in Congress down at all as it poured money into politically connected ventures around the nation.

Included as part of this massive budget was an addition a 2 percent pay increase for all federal workers. This is after last week I pointed out that Federal Workers Salaries Are Exploding During the Recession- that even before this additional across the board 2% increase in salary for government workers they already had exploding salaries and job security.

The debt-fueled spending bill sends your tax money to provide for more than 5,000 local projects that were traded in exchange for votes and power, projects such as the construction of a county farmer's market in Kentucky, renovation of a historic theater in New York, and restoration of a mill in Rhode Island.

In addition, the bloated and utterly shameful spending bill that was passed by Democrats that you or your fellow citizens sent to Washington includes language that allows Washington DC to pay women to get abortions, encourages Washington DC to expand its connections with drug dealers by allowing marijuana, and lets detainees held at Guantanamo Bay be transferred to the United States.

There is only one more spending bill left to pass, a $626 billion defense bill, that the Democrats will use as the base bill for all sorts of unpopular and controversial items, reasoning that if Republicans vote against the monstrosity that the Democrats create, they can disingenuously claim Republicans are against national defense, and if Republicans (or even a single Republican) votes in favor of what is sure to be a disgusting bill, they can claim it was bipartisan.

Republicans at their worst at the height of their worst in Washington don't even begin to come close to how bad the Democrats are running our government right now, and that is the truth.