Government Spending and the Heritage Foundation

Thanks to The Heritage Foundation's Brian Riedl there's a new federal spending report out for perusal. Take a look.

This sure doesn't look good. Congress needs to get their act together. When he spoke at Heritage last year in December, Sen. Tom Coburn talked about this very issue, saying that if this trend continues, then within the next ten to fifteen years the international community will start setting priorities for what America spends her money on. This would be the case because the international community will become tired of financing our growing debt, so to get the countries of the world to finance our debt, they would want to tell us what to spend the cash-flow on. This would be another form of a foreign power having control over the USA, just like when liberal judges on the SCOTUS and in other courts have wanted to look to international law to decide cases instead of our own Constitution. Now I don't want this to happen, I don't agree with it one iota, so it must be prevented. To prevent something like this spending needs to not be "cut", but slashed. The report I linked to points out billions of dollars that are spent towards frivilous items, causes, and programs, yes programs - ones that don't perform. Congress needs to attain a conscience larger than that of the Republican Study Comittee or the gang of seven in the senate that advocates against pork barrel spending and increased fiscal responsibility. Hopefully the new House Majority Leader John Boehner, will asssit greatly with said efforts and make it a central issue for 2006 and beyond. I am positive that Democrats in Congress will do all they can to make a huge issue out of this come November, so the GOP needs to take this to heart if they want to continue to control Congress through the end of the Bush Administration.