Introduction

     Hello!  I have just a couple of months left before retiring, and this is my first attempt at blogging.  I guess even an old dog can learn a new trick now and then.  Let's hope I don't make too much of a mess of it.

     Anyway, much of what will be written here will be of a political nature.  Of course, this site is named Just My Opinion.   So, please feel free to check anything I write for yourself, and make up your own mind about the topics I address.  I frequently have an opinion on a wide range of topics and will share them as they come to me.  Feel free to comment.  Please keep your language clean so my grand children won't be offended.

     Now, on to today's topic.  I have strong opinions concerning the current debt ceiling debate going on in Washington , DC.  Who doesn't? 

     It's Just My Opinion that the new TEA Party supported members of Congress are doing exactly what they were elected to do.  I support them in their efforts to bring our bloated government back in line with what we, as a nation, can afford.  Any debt ceiling increase must come after real cuts are made in spending. 

     We have seen the so-called cuts offered in the bill supported by the Speaker many times before.  They stretch out for years and never really materialize.  If they do come about, these cuts are merely small reductions to the amount of growth in the affected program.  In other words, these proposed cuts are not really cuts at all.  This has been the way of both the Commie..., oops, I mean the Democrats and RINO Republicans for decades.  The current fight is not between the Democrats and Republicans.  It is between the established RINO Republicans and the new conservative Republicans.   

     This is the kind of nonsense freshman Congressmen and women were sent to DC to put a stop to.  We want real cuts.  Real cuts are those that result in droves of bureaucrats carrying boxes of personal property from what used to be their offices.  Real cuts in entitlements should not cost more money as they did during the Clinton era.  Real cuts will eliminate tax dollars going to organizations that have absolutely no Constitutional right to them.  Planned Parenthood, National Endowment for the Arts, PBS/NPR, and the myriad of entitlement programs should be just the beginning of the real cuts made by those who represent the folks back home.

     And finally, since when did Social Security become an entitlement.  I for one have paid into Social Security ever since I took my first job as a grocery store carry-out boy well over forty-five years ago.  That does not make Social Security an entitlement.  When I begin receiving my Social Security checks, they are simply a return of a small portion of what I paid in.

     Therefore, I wish the freshmen class in our House of Representatives all the best.  May God bless and keep you.