Here are some ways to cut spending

In March of 2006, when President Obama was a senator, he said the following: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

Interesting how his tune has changed, isn’t it? Cutting spending is the answer not raising the debt ceiling. Start with the National Endowment for the Arts, which could be funded by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Donald Trump among many others rather than it being funded with the tax dollars of those of us Americans who really can’t afford to go to the theater or art galleries, etc.

Those who support Planned Parenthood’s mission can fund it just as those who support Crisis Pregnancy Centers work support them. So that’s another $300 million plus that can be cut.

Send illegal aliens back home and save on all the medical and educational expenses incurred because they are in this country illegally. Space doesn’t permit other ideas but if I can think of them anybody can think of them.

So, Mr. Obama and members of Congress, get busy and cut spending. And to those members of government (such as Senator Durbin) who seek to give illegals amnesty so as to get their votes next year — don’t even think about it.

P.J. Bertrand

Wood Dale