Lee’s Summit, June 29, 2010 – Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO 5th), continues to vote for spending of taxpayer’s money. Our Representative has continuously voted “yes” for H.R. 4213 the so called “American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010” that would cost American’s $141 billion dollars.  With which part of “we are in pure deficit spending” is our Representative having difficulty? We, the taxpayers of the United States of America, are in the hole by $14 trillion dollars, and Representative Cleaver wants to spend $141 billion more.

Can you run your household that way? Do you run your own family budget that way? Let me put it in clear terms that we can all relate to, because billions and trillions are numbers that don’t make a lot of sense to me.

Let’s say you are a well paid employee of a sound company with some disposable income. This is the money you and your spouse use to go to dinner or the movies, or to put aside for when the dishwasher breaks, or the air conditioner fails, or whatever.

Let’s assume that your child is laid off from his job and needs to pay for their mortgage, and car payment. Your child figures out how to make ends meet by cutting back on all non essentials, making the tough decisions and getting a bit of help from you. Your spendable income is now down to zero because you’re helping them.

Now comes your second child and they get laid off too. Now things are difficult. In your heart you want to help them both, and still meet your own financial responsibilities.

Would you, as a parent, take on the debt necessary to help both your laid off children make ends meet? Would you go to the bank and say, “look, I need to borrow money till my children are back on their feet.” Would you go into deficit spending to do so? Or, would you sit down around the kitchen table and say, “Hon, our family has a problem so let’s cut our expenses enough to free up the money so we can help both of our children who are in trouble…”

There is no way that you would run your own debt deeper. I know Missourians; we are very wise with our money. We don’t spend what we don’t have: Those who did, well, they have learned their lesson.

Why do we have a Federal Representative in Emanuel Cleaver, who does not represent our values and our fiscal responsibility? Representative Cleaver went along with the bill that costs $141 billion, but he also agreed to raise taxes (not cut spending) to increase revenue by $63 billion. In my mind that’s still $78 Billion of borrowing the country requires.

Fortunately the Senate’s Democrats could not pass the bill and for now it is dead. However, Representative Cleaver has not done his job of protecting Missouri tax payers from greater debt. Is $14,000,000,000,000 not enough of a debt?

We need to replace the “spend and tax” representative, and put someone in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District that understand: We can’t spend what we don’t have! No family in Missouri would do that, why should our Representative continue to do so.

Let us send someone to Congress who is more fiscally responsible. Vote in August, and vote in November with your wallet in mind; too many in Washington already have their hands in there.

Respectfully submitted,
The Lee’s Summit Conservative

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