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 <micha...@america.net> 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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