Contract on America: No-restraint GOP

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Saturday, January 22, 2005 | editorial

[Willie Green]

House Republicans at the start of the new legislative session could have set a new, fiscally sound direction by endorsing a series of procedural rules aimed at curtailing federal spending.

Instead the House Republican Conference rejected virtually every commonsense measure that would fetter runaway spending, thereby opening the door to more federal excess. This, after the GOP last year vowed to control spending and restore budget sanity on Capitol Hill.

With no circuit breakers in place, discretionary spending will spike, just as it has over the last three fiscal years, which account for some of the biggest annual spending increases in the past four decades, according to the Cato Institute.

[Willie Green]

And the WH will give rubberstamp approval to anything Congress spends...
the RINOs just can't plunder the Treasury fast enough.

[Always Right]

Already posted, but thanks for your usual upbeat spin.

[Willie Green]

Already posted, but thanks for your usual upbeat spin.

No it's not, but thanks for your usual misinformed spin.

[bahblahbah]

We need to start phasing out farm subsidies for big agribusiness. IIRC, we're spending about 20 billion per year. We could reduce subsidies down to 5 billion where most goes to the poorest farmers.

There are a lot of things we could do. Bush needs to set up a commission like the social security that puts our government on a diet. Make it more efficient by cutting out the fat. That would also give investors more confidence that he's serious about reducing the deficit.

Any one remember that computer program that allowed you to figure out how to balance the congressional budget? I remember playing with one during the Clinton years.

[Always Right]

Yes it has, but it was in a different paper with different title. Same verbage.

[Willie Green]

Yes it has, but it was in a different paper with different title. Same verbage.

Well the Tribune-Review presents it as an unsigned editorial and doesn't credit any other source.
So can you provide a link to the other thread so that we can verify your assertion?

[Always Right]

Here's the story I was thinking of.... House GOP Still Not Serious About Runaway Spending a January 4th story concerning this. It is a different post, although a bit dated and oddly used the same phrase "common sense measures".

[raybbr]

Why was my comment removed? Is there some violation that I am not aware of regarding this source?

[Admin Moderator]

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[raybbr]

My bad. Sorry. I didn't realize it was the balance of the article.

[JSteff]

"And the WH will give rubberstamp approval to anything Congress spends... the RINOs just can't plunder the Treasury fast enough."

Agreed. The sad part is that the expenses also prohibit any cost saving by the government or the citizens ala the medicare prescription drug program.