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Comment by tamara stephenson on April 4, 2011 at 3:50pm

Heck, the $61 billion is only about a 1/4 of the .2 trillion.  it is a sad day indeed; no one in congress is serious about anything except pandering.

Comment by JL Gawlik on April 4, 2011 at 3:48pm

¥ou are right Steve, my mistake.

 

I have been on the phone and emailing so many people all day about different concerns and events coming up and have looking at so many different budgets, information, it sorta' blurred on me. There is a lot of defunding it it also, that is probably the riders that you are speaking of, but i do not think there are 500 of them unless that was addressing all the Departments, it 300 plus pages long.

 

Taxes are going to have be reformed period. If there were not so many loopholes and write-offs in the complex tax code, that we have now, we would be a lot better off. Probably not because the federal government would just spend it.

 

GE not paying taxes is a great example. Anyone who makes a salary over a certain amount should pay a percentage, however small, we are all in this together and everyone should have a ownership in it through paying taxes. When i was a teenager, anything over was it $600, you reported? We also pay many hidden taxes, double taxes, etc. You have pointed that out. Part of Ryan's plan is to address that also. Keep in mind defunding a lot of departments will also decrease the government's spending also.

Comment by JL Gawlik on April 4, 2011 at 3:16pm

Steve, the budget is for the 2011. It ends in September 2011, we are into the seventh month of that budget that was not passed by Pelosi and Reid.

 

I don't understand where you are getting your facts and figures but there was a projected deficit of 1.2 trillion for 2011. 61 billion is half of that.

The upcoming budget for 2012 will be released this week. Paul Ryan sat on the Debt Commission and has found more to cut than what was found by the Commission. 

Comment by JL Gawlik on April 4, 2011 at 3:07pm

I just received my congress.org mega vote that tracks voting in Congress and the House passed a bill called the Government Shutdown Prevention Act:

Government Shutdown Prevention Act - Vote Passed (221-202, 1 Present, 8 Not Voting)

This bill would declare the House-passed spending bill, H.R.1, to be enacted if the Senate does not pass a FY2011 spending bill by April 6. Supporters say the vote highlights the Senate's inability to pass a budget, while opponents say the bill is unconstitutional.

 

Crenshaw voted yes.

 

Upcoming in the House:

Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 - H.R.910

The House is scheduled to vote on this bill that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

 

Net neutrality rule disapproval - H.J.RES.37

This House resolution would overturn a Federal Communications Commission rule regarding "net neutrality."

You can sign up for it here:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote/

Comment by J.R. on April 4, 2011 at 1:44pm

Steve, my suggestion to reduce the deficit would be to loudly and forcefully expose the obstructionist political game the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are playing to prevent U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's excellent budget, that would substantially reduce deficit spending over a defined period of time, from being passed. I would also recommend flooding the media and the U.S. Senators' e-mailboxes and telephone lines with citizens' demands to bring that budget to the floor for a vote. Also, e-mailing and posting our position to websites, including those of media outlets.  We need a high profile voice and demand out there to expose the Senate Democrats' obstruction of this commonsense path to fiscal sanity. We also need to support Sen. Rand Paul's efforts in the Senate with regard to eliminating deficit spending.

Democrats would be stupid to vote NO on this bill and have to answer for it in the 2012 election and, at the same time, they don't have a valid excuse for voting NO on it now---or for refusing to allow it to be voted on. Obama is probably pressuring Harry Reid and other Democrat Senators to not bring Sen. Ryan's bill up, for to pass it would then put him on the hot seat.  Obama definitely doesn't want to sign off on that budget, because it will seriously cut his desired and intended deficit spending that would inevitably push our country into deficit hell and bankruptcy. He doesn't want a fiscal win for Republicans prior to the 2012 election,  And, he knows a weakened government and weakened economy makes any country ripe for anarchy, chaos and takeover. 

As to the military budget, they need to root out waste, fraud and abuse and decrease the size of the administration heavy Pentagon staff, decrease our military presence in non-critical foreign countries, concentrate on a defense shield for this country, close some military bases and modernize others technologically, and allow military personnel to help control our international borders until there is a secure barrier to illegal entry in place. Controling our borders would save both federal and state governments money, improve the economy, and stop much of the renditions money that flows to Mexico from illegal Mexican workers in this country, which is a drain on our economy.

And they need Congress to impeach and remove the president who has abused his power by unconstitutional use of the American military and military assets to be used in an undeclared war, without approval of Congress and the American people who elected those members of Congress to be their voice in government. Look how much money that illegal war action has cost so far. There's more they can do to reduce their budget, I'm sure.  This is what comes to mind now.

Comment by JL Gawlik on April 4, 2011 at 1:14pm

Interesting to note on your comment Roma,  "to the poor and to corporations are both destroying..."

 

The middle class is left paying for it all.

 

But, yet the progressive liberal mantra has moved from "We are fighting for the poor..." to "... fighting for the middle class..." which is a false statement because the only one fighting for Americans is our military.

 

Elected representatives are suppose to be our voices in the peoples' seats, not fighting.

Comment by JL Gawlik on April 4, 2011 at 12:40pm

President Obama has increased our appropriations to over 24% more than the previous administration and more than 84% increase in spending over all.

 

"We're not interested in actually rubber-stamping these elevated spending levels that President Obama pushed through two years ago. The kind of spending increases he got on government agency budgets, 24% on average, you throw stimulus on top, that was an 84% increase. So, what the President's budget tries to do is lock in all those big spending gains. We don't want to accept that. We're not looking for a shutdown, but we're not going to rubber-stamp these spending levels. We want spending cuts in return and that's what this is about," Rep. Paul said.

 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/28/rep_paul_ryan_to_...

Comment by J.R. on April 4, 2011 at 12:25pm

Steve, kicking butt in Afghanistan is what we did in those early weeks and it hardly dented the surface of the problem.  They should have continued the bombing and never put American boots on the ground. The Russians learned that lesson earlier---the long, hard way.   

That region of the world will never change without a change to their Muslim faith, which is not going to be a happening thing.  Islam is not just a religion, it is their law, their social order, their government and military all rolled into one.  The mosques are their seat of government, their courts that enforce shari'a law, their place of worship, their policing of society and its mores, their subjugation of women, their military command and arsenals, their religious edicts and sanctioned permission to engage in jihad to kill "infidels" and to lie and conceal for the benefit of Islam. How does our government and military change that, when our government is allowing it to spread right here in our own country?  Here is a link that explains that spread and what it means:  http://www.jesustomuslims.org/mosque.html

With Medicare and Medicaid, administering them in a trimmed down and streamlined combined agency and eliminating fraud, waste and abuse would be a good place to start. Tort reform would be another. What would be your alternative, especially for the poor?  Leave them to die for lack of medical care? The hospitals of this country couldn't absorb the astronomical costs that would come to them through their emergency rooms.  They would have to pass the increased costs along to paying patients, most of whom who can hardly pay the high costs for their own care. 

Another place to cut would be the U.S. Dept of Education, which should be eliminated altogether, with responsibility for education being returned to the sovereign states that did a much better job on their own.  There are other federal departments and agencies that could be streamlined, combined, or eliminated. 

Obama has expanded government, hired more than 30K new government employees in his first year, and wants the inefficient federal government in control of everything. You can't square the socialist government he wants with our constitutional republic.

 

Comment by JL Gawlik on April 4, 2011 at 11:44am

You may find this of interest:

http://www.the912project.us/forum/topic/show?id=2881797%3ATopic%3A1...

Comment by J.R. on April 4, 2011 at 11:28am

Right, J.L. The Democrat-controlled Senate has been sitting on the House-passed Republican budget for all that time for purely political reasons and gamesmanship. That's the political game they're playing with our nation's economy and financial stability in order to dishonestly pin the blame on Republicans and give themselves a campaign issue and advantage in 2012. 

Democrats are, again, putting politics above the best interests of this country and the American people.  In doing so, they are using their historic campaign mantra of "fighting for the people." Fighting for the people is our military's job and they have been successful at it.  Passing laws that facilitate responsible government and fiscal solvency on behalf of this country and its people is Congress" job and Democrats are have failed at that and are obstructing a proposed budget that will set the country on a course to ultimately restore fiscal sanity and solvency. They are determined to obstruct passage of this budget and giving the Republicans any credit for providing a budget solution that demonstrably works for the American people and our country's fiscal health. 

It's strange that we are hearing very little about that budget that has already passed the House and is now deliberately stalled in the Senate. Congressional Republicans need to step up and speak out against this deliberate delay by Democrats and do more to explain their budget and claim credit for their hard work and legislative efforts to save this country from financial ruin.   

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