Posted on 02/09/2018 8:37:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Warning: This post contains numbers that may upset anyone who dreams of a smaller government.
With the Senate budget deal announced yesterday, congressional Republicans have proved that they aren't merely big spenders: They bear primary responsibility for Washington's complete lack of fiscal responsibility. At the same time, they have reaffirmed the fact that bipartisanship means a determination to spend us into oblivion.
The bipartisan budget deal that the senators proclaimed so proudly yesterday would add $300 billion over two years to discretionary spending, not counting emergency funds and other add-ons. It would yet again burst the budget caps that Republicans negotiated in 2011 during a debt ceiling deal in exchange for giving more borrowing authority to the Department of Treasury. The debt ceiling would be hiked once again, allowing the Treasury to keep borrowing without asking Congress for an increase. Legislators wouldn't even have to pretend they care about how fast our national debt is growing.
Trillion-dollars deficits are coming back fast and probably are here to stay. And this time you can't blame that on a recession or a major war. It's a direct result of a Republican spending binge—an unwillingness to couple tax cuts with reductions in spending.
Republicans claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, but the GOP has repeatedly broken the budget caps imposed during the Obama administration. Yes, Democrats were often partners in these deals; they get a good portion of the blame too. But they have never pretended that they wanted these budget caps. And they could not have repeatedly broken through federal spending limits without Republicans leading the effort.
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Of course Republicans love spending. ALL politicians love spending. It is the only way they can keep their fiefdoms and their paychecks. Government will cut back their bureaucracies and agencies if they don’t spend their allocations.
It only is effective until 23 March. Then they have to do this again.
The numbers they wrote on the paper document are as good as numbers they’ve written down in the past on paper documents.
IOW....ZILCH.
I’m not thrilled with the deal. I don’t feel the way Trump seems to feel in a tweet. The only good thing was it helped The Military.
The Senate Budget Deal Proves Republicans Love Government Spending
With the UNIPARTY, it’s now “if” the SHTF. It’s when. I’d rather not be in a city when it happens.
This is all for show. There is no such thing as conservative or liberal politicians. There are only the power hungry and the governed. On the positive side of this bloated budget that funds everything they claim to be against, the Republicans have two years to float show-vote legislation to impress us with their “conservatism.” Hopefully more people will begin to awaken to the scam that is our current political theater.
They can't even cut the rate of growth.
So, Mo, how to get out of the conundrum? How to sell a less-nanny government?
Ultimately it has to do with selling a more-caring God, and here I’ve seen even supposed conservative Christian souls step all over their je ne sais quoi. It entails getting into the “touchy feely” areas apace with holiness, and that picture is not acceptable to said souls. So they stay littler than they could be on earth. And once more, secular liberalism fills the vacuum and so what those souls would not suffer one way, they suffer another.
In a democracy, you not only get the government you want. You get the government you deserve.
i.e. the congress is not the problem. It is, rather, the voters. And they don’t have term limits.
It’s why I’ve done what I did back in 2008 - and would do it again.
Most politicians love to spend. It gives them power and to hell with America.
We need new Senators.
Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans.
I think this may be a jujitsu move anyway, since Trump and crew will have a lot to say about spending restraint and change in how agencies/give-aways/entitlements may be done. Not that we can save enough to offset the pork, but it will/should be significant. As fewer people are on Food Stamps, Trump will/should cut back on the spending - and we may have more examples. Heck, with Hillary "losing" $6B at state, and the $300 hammers at the Pentagon, there MAY be some opportunities to clean house.
We need more republican senators so Chuck Schumer can’t hold military funding hostage to get everything he wants. Reason is funded almost entirely by the Koch brothers since Dick Scaife died so it’s totally unsurprising that they are onboard the cheap labor express.
Secular liberalism fills a vacuum, and it’s time for classic Christians to get down on their knees and ponder before the Holy Spirit.
How can they display a God who fills the vacuum better? Maybe a little more love and a little less quick judging on the private level is in order. I’d be content to risk helping one scalawag if by the same act it also helped nine honesty needy people. There is a point of purity of results beyond which even God won’t push — the cost would be that of hastening judgment day and missing out on some saveable souls.
The only time Republicans care about the deficit is when a Democrat is in the White House. And the only time the Democrats care about the deficit is when a Republican is in the White House.
Let's see the economy work.
Trumps tweet said this bill was wasting money, and we need more Republicans to stop this waste.
I’m afraid this government might be TOO BIG TO FAIL.
If too much spending was going to cause it to collapse, I fear it would have happened by now.
No, every other government and financial institution on the planet will keep the balloon afloat because all of the alternatives are far, far worse.
Clearly Congress has figured this out.
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