A front page story in the Times Record “Womack Hits Entitlements” reveals nothing that anyone on the streets already knew, i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, & Social Security consume 2/3rds of annual spending by the federal government.

He further indicated that discretionary spending would not balance the budget.  
There were no indications that questions were asked by the Times Record of Cong. Womack.  Fort Smith deserves more.   Is it not the job of a newspaper to ask questions and pursue the truth?

Conspicuously absent from Womack’s stage appearance were:

1.     What is his plan for solving the debt crisis, i.e. is he actively going to engage? 

2.    No mention of the runaway illegal invasion of America by Mexicans and OTM’s & the inordinate amount of taxpayer dollars they consume in welfare. The illegals receive all kinds of largesse, no questions. Ask the Congressman how many thousand illegal Mexican women & OTM’s have dumped their anchor babies on Arkansas soil to be taken care of until age 21, compliments of former Gov. Huckabee.

3.    No mention & certainly no discussion regarding America’s military global excursions (military presence in 130 countries). All recent U.S. military encounters have resulted in invading sovereign nations who have done nothing to us nor posed a threat, e.g. Obama’s attack on Libya.  If there were a budget, what percent converted to dollars does he think is dedicated to the military/industrial complex?

4.    He did say he supports “free trade”…there is nothing “free” about GATT, NAFTA, and the rest of huckster programs. If I see Cong. Womack one day in the future I will be pleased to define real Free Trade.

5.    No mention of dissolving such unconstitutional & duplicitous government behemoths as the Dept. of Education, Energy, HUD, EPA, ad infinitum.

6.     No explanation as to why he voted for the extension of the liberty stealing Patriot Acts—Amendments 1,2,4 & 10.
Congressman Womack, why do politicians lump Social Security, Medicare with Medicaid? The first two are paid for in most cases with taxpayer’s blood & sweat and the last is totally Forced Redistribution? That is called Marxist/Communism. How much does Medicaid consume?

Republicans had a golden opportunity to vote in “Cut, Cap, & Balance” even though it would have been voted down by the Senate & vetoed by the President, would have sent a resounding message to U.S. citizens and the rest of the world, that this country is dedicated to reducing the size of the federal government, while putting the ball squarely in Obama’s court. Another failure precipitated by political cronyism, accompanied by bi-partisan compromise, which guarantees defeat.

Nothing accomplished by Cong. Womack’s appearance, just typical back slapping.

It must be said here that I long gave up attending political meetings, nothing substantive is allowed to occur and real questions activate hostility, e.g. the recent F. S. Board of Directors meeting.

Don’t lose sight of the fact that Cong. Womack is a Big Government man—a former Mayor of Rogers, National Guard, & now Congressman.  He is firmly ensconced in the political trough.

Joe McCutchen