Posted on 03/23/2013 12:02:44 PM PDT by whitedog57
The US Senate passed the Patty Murray (former pre-school teacher, now Chair of Senate Budget Committee) budget by a razor thin majority of 50-49. Her budget calls for $1 trillion in ADDITIONAL taxes over the next 10 years and an increase in Federal debt of $7.3 trillion. Needless to say, the Murray budget never balances. No wonder parents don’t want her teaching personal finance to their children!
The House of Representative have passed the Ryan budget which actually DOES balance the budget over ten years by a vote of 221-207.
Needless to say, it took the Senate 4 years to pass a budget and they have no interest in the House budget. Checkmate.
But if the Democrat spendathon budget isn’t bad enough, the Democrats are still screaming about the horrors of slowing Federal spending slightly (better known the sequester). Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) is now claiming that Congressional staffers will STARVE because of the sequester slowdown.
Starving? Her own Hill staff earn between $60,000 and $160,000 per year. They can’t figure out how to pack a lunch or buy a sandwich for $5 in the House cafeteria? Like in the movie Scary Movie 3 (a parody of the film “Signs”), Charlie Sheen’s character says about the space aliens: “They mastered space flight but they can’t get through a wooden door?”
With such a smaller slowdown in government spending, Congressional staffers can’t figure out how to bring a lunch to work?
And now the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday told 149 regional airports across the country it would begin closing their air traffic control towers. Once again, with a massively bloated Federal budget, they can’t figure out how to allocate resources?
Then the are the White House tour cancellations, no easter egg hunts and other absurd cuts. Say, how about Homeland Security NOT purchasing 1.6 billion bullets or 2,700 armored vehicles for use against US citizens? Not to mention airplanes and tanks to Egypt. Or the funding of an Afghan YouTube channel.
Seriously, folks. How about cutting spending on such vital research as $384,949 for a Federal study examining ‘Plasticity in Duck Penis Length’? And $682,570 to study ‘Shrimp On A Treadmill’.
I admit that I don’t lie awake at night wondering about how ducks compare penis size or whether shrimp can run on a treadmill.
For more on sheer government waste, please read Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) “Waste Book for 2012.“
We have a government with the most sophisticated military in the world and the greatest healthcare on the planet (until 2014, that is), and THEY CAN’T GET THROUGH A WOODEN DOOR in terms of budget cuts?
We all need to throw a bone to the congressional ‘RAT “Biters” on Capitol Hill. They’re “starving” on 60K to 100K salaries. Maybe now they’ll understand how New Yawkers feel about losing their “Big Gulps”.
Maybe the Democrat staffers can be convinced to resort to cannibalism.
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