I foresee the near literal return of tarring and feathering.... =.=
From the article:These facts and numbers need to be questioned repeatedly. Ask your Congress critter (especially if they voted for this crap sandwich) how much they are cutting from the budget. Ask them often, and point out that spending more money next year than this year isn't a cut.
Apologists for the debt deal claim that they “cut a dollar of spending for every dollar of debt increase.” Actually, Congress voted to “cut” annual federal spending from $3.7 trillion this year to $5.4 trillion by 2021, and to “cut” the national debt from $14.3 trillion down to $22.7 trillion. Washington defines this as a “cut” because it would rather spend that much more.
The Ruling Class (Republicans and Democrats) need to quit peeing on us and telling us it's raining.
And all incumbents need to go. Every last one of them should be voted out in 2012.
While rutting through the second level of budget projections, I found that the CBO estimates 1.5% inflation and 2.5% growth on top of that. Congress then assumes that it can increase spending 4% and keep things the way they are. If that growth, 2.5%, doesn’t pan out (and it hasn’t) they never go back and adjust spending to compensate. They simply assume that the economy will make up for that growth next year.
“Cruise Control” is the right analogy. Our congress has been living of the projections of 2.5% economic growth from the 90’s, as if that were “normal” and what we have today is an aberration instead of a new equilibrium.
Peronally, I think McClintock is a brilliant, articulate and strong conservative. I wish he would run for President so we would have a genuine choice in this next election.
I have seen him in action in regional meetings everal times and he is a champion for our rights in person.
That piece of work is almost devinely inspired classical material!!!
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This guy is brilliant. Outstanding.
This is absolutely unconstitutional.
A congressional committee cannot modify the terms of the constitution.
If Tom wants to do something about it, he should sue.