Government Shutdown

Speaker Boehner,

I have just heard President Obama's speech on possible government shutdown. As usual, the community organizer gave a tremendously effective emotional talk devoid of practicality. However, he had one clear message. He is opposed to government shutdown.

As a rule of thumb, if President Obama is for anything, we should be against it.

However to put it in proper perspective, government shutdown is a tool to be used in order to obtain the $100 billion budget cut which was originally the Republican plan. Present discussions about budget cuts of $7 billion here and there are ridiculous.
President Obama's proposed budget for 2012 is $3.73 trillion. If we reasonably assume that this is inflated by 100%, the waste portion is $1.86 trillion. You have been looking for a $100 billion cut. In effect, you have been asking for only 5.4% reduction in the waste. That doesn't even sound reasonable to me, even if you were to get the Democrats to agree to that.

Let's remember that our objective is to reduce the size of federal government, and initially we are only starting with the waste factor. 5% is almost laughable, but it's at least a start. Reducing that further would be super ridiculous.

I am usually not a big donor to political or social causes based upon solicitations, but I have started to be a contributor to the Tea Party, which seems to be obviously on the correct track for this country. My individual vote will be miniscule, but perhaps my money
can convince others of the validity of the Tea Party's agenda.