Well, the House of Representatives passed the Boehner Boondoggle today. When you have the Democrats, mainstream media, and neo-conservatives praising the Speaker of the House for his deft handling of the budget, you know something stinks.
We are now finding out that the $38 billion in budget cuts is all smoke and mirrors:
The Congressional Budget Office says the fiscal 2011 budget that lawmakers are set to approve today cuts spending by a tiny fraction of the advertised amount, the National Journal reports. A CBO analysis says spending cuts will total $352 million, or less than one-hundredth of the $38.5 billion figure settled on by both parties.
“The nonpartisan budget agency also projects that total outlays are actually some $3.3 billion more than in 2010, if emergency spending is included in the total,” the Journal reports.
The CBO attributed the sudden disappearance of the highly touted cuts to spending increases that did make it into the bill and to accounting procedures employed by Congress to reach its $38.5 billion target.
What a joke and I might add a bad joke at that. Now, we are facing the 2012 budget and also the prospect of raising the debt ceiling, so these spendthrifts can really stick it to the American people. The Democrats threw their asses over a small cut in spending. Here are a few examples of these so-called adults:
I remember the demagoguery during the 1995 budget debate. This is a different time and era. The Republicans need to grow a pair. If we don’t stand up to this juvenile behavior by the Democrats, I don’t think the country can withstand our debt crisis. These so-called adults need to get rid of their middle school mentality and get down to business.
Source: http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Congress-budgetdeal-spendingcuts-shrinking/2011/04/14/id/392878
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