Wow!
The Congress consists of a Senate and House of Representatives.
So now what?
Regard$,
--MJ
The record of the 105th Congress, Republican
controlled in both houses, is an
abomination. Spending is up. No major program
or agency has been significantly cut, much less
eliminated. The tax code is more complex than
ever, loaded down with new conservative social
engineering initiatives. The balanced-budget
agreement is an excuse not to cut taxes and, with
the 'surplus’ an excuse to increase
spending. The GOP has seemed intent on
federalizing every crime on the books,
indifferent to the Constitution’s clear direction
that crime is a state and local
responsibility….The federal government is a
machine designed to increase its control over the
lives of average Americans. It is constantly
probing here, pushing there, and generally
increasing its control. Without a
philosophically sound, constitutionally based
political party opposing that process, it is
going to continue to do so with impunity. The
philosophical leadership vacuum at the top of the
GOP should be a source of major concern to all
freedom-loving Americans. -- Edward H. Crane
At 09:22 PM 7/27/2011, you wrote:
Any debt bill must originate in the House.
So now what?
On Jul 27, 6:58 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> Boehner Plan Doesn’t Cut SpendingChris Edwards • July 27, 2011 @ 12:05 pm
> House Speaker John Boehner is scrambling to
revise his budget plan after the CBO found that
it would only cut spending by $850 billion, not the $1.2 trillion promised.
> However, the Boehner plan doesn’t actually
cut spending at all. The chart shows the
discretionary spending caps in the Boehner
plan. Spending increases every yearfrom $1.043
trillion in 2012 to $1,234 trillion in 2021.
(This category of spending excludes the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan).
> The “cuts” in the Boehner plan are only cuts
from the CBO baseline, which is an imaginary
path of future spending designed as a planning
tool for Congress. Boehner can propose to spend
any amount in any future year he wants, and in
this plan he choose to have a steadily rising spending path.
> The Boehner plan also doesn’t cut spending in
a more fundamental way. It doesn’t lay out any
particular programs or agencies to terminate.
I’m in favor of spending caps as a secondary
enforcement mechanism, but actual cuts have to
come first. A caps-only plan like Boehner’s
just kicks the can down the road. At best, it
simply nudges future legislators to actually cut something specific.
> Why doesn’t the House leadership propose real
cuts? They’ve certainly got the resources and
expertise to do the job. A single senator Tom
Coburn produced a 620-page report last week
detailing hundreds of programs to cut and
terminate. Coburn and his staff read through
thousands of articles and reports on the
real-world performance of federal programs, and
they made a good case for each particular cut they proposed.
> Republican leaders can’t hide behind
baselines forever. If they really want a
smaller government as they keep claiming,
they’ve got to target particular programs and
agencies and begin a national debate about
terminating
them.http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/boehner-plan-doesnt-cut-spending/
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