Of course Republicans love spending. ALL politicians love spending. It is the only way they can keep their fiefdoms and their paychecks. Government will cut back their bureaucracies and agencies if they don’t spend their allocations.
It only is effective until 23 March. Then they have to do this again.
The numbers they wrote on the paper document are as good as numbers they’ve written down in the past on paper documents.
IOW....ZILCH.
I’m not thrilled with the deal. I don’t feel the way Trump seems to feel in a tweet. The only good thing was it helped The Military.
The Senate Budget Deal Proves Republicans Love Government Spending
With the UNIPARTY, it’s now “if” the SHTF. It’s when. I’d rather not be in a city when it happens.
This is all for show. There is no such thing as conservative or liberal politicians. There are only the power hungry and the governed. On the positive side of this bloated budget that funds everything they claim to be against, the Republicans have two years to float show-vote legislation to impress us with their “conservatism.” Hopefully more people will begin to awaken to the scam that is our current political theater.
They can't even cut the rate of growth.
So, Mo, how to get out of the conundrum? How to sell a less-nanny government?
Ultimately it has to do with selling a more-caring God, and here I’ve seen even supposed conservative Christian souls step all over their je ne sais quoi. It entails getting into the “touchy feely” areas apace with holiness, and that picture is not acceptable to said souls. So they stay littler than they could be on earth. And once more, secular liberalism fills the vacuum and so what those souls would not suffer one way, they suffer another.
Most politicians love to spend. It gives them power and to hell with America.
We need new Senators.
Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans.
I think this may be a jujitsu move anyway, since Trump and crew will have a lot to say about spending restraint and change in how agencies/give-aways/entitlements may be done. Not that we can save enough to offset the pork, but it will/should be significant. As fewer people are on Food Stamps, Trump will/should cut back on the spending - and we may have more examples. Heck, with Hillary "losing" $6B at state, and the $300 hammers at the Pentagon, there MAY be some opportunities to clean house.
The only time Republicans care about the deficit is when a Democrat is in the White House. And the only time the Democrats care about the deficit is when a Republican is in the White House.
Let's see the economy work.
I’m afraid this government might be TOO BIG TO FAIL.
If too much spending was going to cause it to collapse, I fear it would have happened by now.
No, every other government and financial institution on the planet will keep the balloon afloat because all of the alternatives are far, far worse.
Clearly Congress has figured this out.
Yep - the House managed to pass it w/o a single Dem vote....McConnell is Schumer’s butt boy or the People could have gotten a better deal - many voted for it because it funds the military and that’s the main reason Trump didn’t publicly complain.
It is two year budget, not a CR? Then that is a good thing. Lots of discretionary spending. Hmmmm? Like $25 billion for a wall across our southern border?
All government employees love spending free money.
The GOPe is addicted to power