Washington Post blasts Dems Budget (Hell Freezes Over)

Townhall.com ^ | March 17, 2013 | Bob Beauprez

[Grams A]

And I’m serious. The jobs are not coming back.

There are jobs, maybe not in your neighborhood or city, but in our newspaper today small companies are trying to find licensed electricians, plumbers and welders. Yes someone may have to go to school for two years to be trained but it is doable and these are the kinds of skills that will always be needed.

Head for the oil patch if you want to make some money. Yes it may be hard work but it’s a job and it pays well.

If we get some manufacturing jobs back the repetitive tasks will be done by robots. Obama promised Hope and Change. Not sure what the hope thing was all about but I do know that life has certainly changed.

Time to figure out how to make lemonade out of the bunch of lemons that has been foisted on us.

[Starstruck]

Patty Murray is more stupid than Barbara Boxer? I didn’t think such a thing was possible.

To-mate-o...To-mot-o.

[okie01]

The Dems did have a budget the past 4 years, how do you think the government operated during that time - it certainly wasn’t under Ryan’s budgets. Yes, they had a budget, but no, they didn’t put it out for all to see months ahead - they just waited until it needed to be passed, and then it was passed.

NO budgets were passed over the past four years -- except by the House.

In the absence of budgets, spending was automatically controlled by the Current Services Baseline -- the previous year's budget, adjusted upward by a specified percentage. The arrangement is an artifact of the Carter administration -- and, as planned by Harry Reid, it kept the Republican House from having any meaningful say regarding appropriations and expenditures since they gained a majority effective January, 2011.

[central_va]

I am convinced that nothing will bring back manufacturing like WWIII would. I hope we can recover our industrial base in an emergency fast enough to stave off disaster. Nobody thinks of that.

[central_va]

Patty Murray is more stupid than Barbara Boxer?

Man, that's a tough one.

[MasterGunner01]

The WaPo is going to have to do better. A tiger does not change its stripes, even if you hide them with a bucket of whitewash. Consider this as disinformation [deception].

[thirst4truth]

NO budgets were passed over the past four years -- except by the House.

Isn't the one trillion deficit each year since 2009 because they added the stimulus to the budget as a yearly expenditure? My understanding was since 2008, the budget has increased 25% mainly caused by the stimulus that was included annually by way of the Continuing Resolution instead of an annual budget.

[okie01]

Isn't the one trillion deficit each year since 2009 because they added the stimulus to the budget as a yearly expenditure?

You are correct.

While we were all led to believe that Porkulus was supposed to be a one-time-only expenditure, the Democrats took steps to build it into the departmental budgets. Accordingly, the stimulus became part of the Current Services Baseline.

Harry Reid knew exactly what he was doing. When they passed Obamacare, the Democrat leadership knew they were going to lose the House in 2010 -- and they developed a plan to short-circuit the House's Constitutional authority over appropriations. The method:

1. Build Porkulus into the departmental budgets

2. Then resist any attempt to pass a Congressional budget.

3. Presto! Expenditures were now controlled by the Current Services Baseline -- the only Congressional action required being the passage of a Continuing Resolution (which cannot effectively impact exactly what spending is taking place -- only the total amount).