[Bernard]

On Meet The Press, Claire Macaskill was pushing hard about some $23 Billion (Bilion with a B) program cut. Too bad the host does not realize that the annual deficit is 1,000 Billion per year. (Yes, I know annual means per year, but I don't know if DNC Dave does).

There is no serious attempt to control spending; Barry Obama, Harry Ried and Nancy Pelosi are running amuck with the national checkbook and there is no attempt to stop them. That's why Barry needs a permanent executive power to raise the debt ceiling, because the dials are spinning so fast even the big spenders in DC can't keep up with it.

[kabar]

The GOP blew it big time in the lame duck session following the 2010 midterms. They could have made the Bush tax cuts permanent and we would have avoided the current "crisis." And the GOP never could get any real reductions in spending, which still goes up every year.

I do find it interesting that when the Bush tax cuts were passed, the Dems and some Reps (McCain) claimed that they were just for the wealthy. Now Obama wants to keep them for the middle class. If the Clinton tax rates were so great and contributed to a booming economy, why not go back to the Clinton tax rates for everyone?

[maica]

Does anyone know when [cough, cough - excuse my spasms] so-called ‘budgeting’ was shifted to a ten year paradigm? I missed it. I always thought that the five year projection was a bad idea and all of a sudden we have ten-year fortune-telling numbers.

Politicians are by and large lawyers, word people - not mathemeticians. And they are bombarded with lobbyists for everything.

Fudging numbers has to be the number one industry in DC.

Billion, schmillion, what’s the difference to them?

[rodguy911]

Spending, Benghazi, over regulation, just a few of what was purposely ignored today Bernard.I don’t undersestimate what these commie-clowns are up to. It’s never any good.