Ed Case: Reinstate Pay-as-you-go federal budgeting (a 'Blue Dog' Dem. reacts to Obama's budget)

Hawai`i Free Press ^ | 3-4-09 | (Former US Rep) Ed Case

[AndrewWalden]

in government as elsewhere, hard decisions avoided are hard decisions worsened....The administration’s current FY ’10 budget proposal projects huge annual deficits for several fiscal years to come, meaning further trillion dollar increases in national debt....

[Earthdweller]

Oh...this is convenient, now that a mountain of extremist commie legislation has been passed.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Obama is spend and tax - not tax, and then spend. Aren’t we teaching poor economic policy?

[Earthdweller]

The entire thing isn’t even about economic policy...it’s about increasing government reach and control over what used to be free people.

[willgolfforfood]

Hey, Ed Case...let me axe you...

Did you vote for Queen Nancy to be Speaker again, when the House convened for this session? You know, all of 6 or 7 weeks ago?

Because if you did, she had already planned to have the rules of the House in force for this session specifically EXCLUDE Pay-Go, so that socialist spending couldn't be inhibited by any of the members of either party invoking the Pay-Go rule, like you say you want to do now. And you probably knew this then, but our gutless, useless press won't call you on it now.

So if you voted for Nancy you're a whining little hypocrite and you should resign in shame and try to go get a real job, except you're not man enough for that, are you?

[kabar]

We spend more than 17 cents out of every federal dollar just to service the national debt. Imagine when it hits 20 cents or more. That is the real issue given the fact that almost 50% of the federal budget is spent on entitlements. The "discretionary" part of the budget includes DOD, which will be a major target for cost cutting.

How Does the National Debt Affect Me?