People Are All the Same Race

Though it won't happen in my lifetime, we need to stop dividing the one and only race that all people belong to, the human race, into phony “race” subsets by “color” such as White, Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, whatever. Science has proven that we are all one and the same “species”. Our blood and organs are interchangeable. We therefore are all one “race”.

As an analogy, take horses. They come in almost the same colors that humans do - Black, White, Brown, Blond, and multi-colors. Do we divide horses into different subsets of horses by color? Of course not!! We call all of them horses. Same principle holds for people.

Federal Budgets – How to Pass One Every Year

The last Federal Budget to be approved occurred in 2009 when Democrats had a super majority in the House and Senate. It only takes 40 Senators from the opposition party to block passage of a budget. So what happens when a budget isn't passed by Congress? Either the government shuts down or Congress passes individual “spending resolutions” by department. What's the difference? Spending resolutions have automatic spending increases built in. There's no real capability to reduce spending where needed and spending increases tend to be generous. Democrats love these; Republicans do not. So why don't Republicans fight for spending decreases in these spending resolutions. Democrats won't agree to spending decreases, except for military spending despite the fact that both Russian and China have been building up their militaries. If Republicans stand firm against these spending resolutions, then there will be a partial government shutdown which everyone hates and for which the fake news media will falsely assign blame to Republicans.

So how do we fix this rigged system of never ending, unaffordable annual spending increases and resulting debt creation and growth? We need a law or better yet a Constitutional Amendment that mandates that in the absence of passage of a single unified Federal budget in any given year, until such passage occurs, the new year's budget will default to last year's budget minus 10%. By now rigging the system to decrease spending if no budget agreement is reached instead of the other way around, that should be sufficient motivation for both political parties to actually compromise each year to make the tough decisions of where to cut spending and where to increase it.