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Story from AP via ABC here.
On paper and in speeches, Republicans boast that Congress' first budget since they won control of the Senate and House last fall will eliminate red ink within a decade. Actually, it will do nothing of the sort.
That's because the budget itself is nonbinding and, on its own, has no effect on spending.
And also because Republicans have decided against using unique budget rules for follow-up legislation to save the trillions of dollars from food stamps, Medicaid and other benefit programs that would be needed to erase red ink. To do that would spark a pitched political battle with Democrats, a veto from President Barack Obama — and a possible backlash from the voters in 2016.
Republican veterans and newcomers alike made no mention of this political truth in praising their own handiwork in recent days as the blueprint was ratified on party-line votes in both houses.Let the Democrat debt-doomsday crowd run on their death panels, healthcare rationing and surrender to ISIS head-cutters and see where that gets them.
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House Speaker John Boehner's office listed 10 ways the budget will help taxpayers, including "balancing the budget without raising taxes to help create 1.2 million new jobs, save taxpayers more than $5 trillion and protect future generations from crushing debt."
Now that I'm "in paradigm" Boehner bugs me more than Nancy Pelosi ever did.
The problem is that this attitude is bipartisan. The Democrats think that Bill Clinton's surplus really showed those wimpy Republicans who's boss when it come to budgeting. Only he had to raise taxes to do it. The GOP want to do Clinton one better in their view by doing it entirely with spending cuts and may some tax cuts too.
With leadership like this the US is truly screwed. It's pretty obvious what's coming. By announcing a military policy of full spectrum dominance and projecting power at Russia and China, a new arms race is beginning and that will mean raising military spending in the US. If this is to be budget neutral that will mean cutting back on other programs. The GOB base's view that this can be done by cutting foreign aid and reducing "waste, fraud, and abuse" is bonkers.
Tom those programs are automatic appropriations. .. not much anyone can do to "cut" them.... that is a point of the article...
The budget is basically meaningless. ..
The objective is to do away with those automatic appropriations, ostensibly to regain control of the the relationship of the budgetary process to the fiscal balance, which where the budget is now discretionary but not the fiscal balance owing to the automatic appropriations.
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