With Debt Limit Fight Resolved, Spending Restraint Should Remain Central to Authorization Debates

Center for Fiscal Accountability ^ | 2011-08-02 | [Staff]

[92nina]

...We write on behalf of the millions of taxpayers represented by our organizations to urge you to exercise serious fiscal restraint when you bring the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 to the Senate floor. After recognizing the need for significant spending reform in the debt limit deal, continued efforts to restrain spending are still needed. The Pentagon’s budget should not be spared from scrutiny and we are encouraged by steps the Senate Armed Services Committee took this summer to root out waste and inefficiencies in the DOD authorization bill.

While the Senate Armed Services Committee declined to cut substantially from the levels passed in the House Authorization bill, the legislation amounts to a $6 billion cut from the President’s request fulfilled in the House bill. Moreover, significant policy choices were made that highlight a new willingness to confront profligacy in the federal government’s most opaque department.

One account the Committee should be applauded for eliminating is that for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), an antiquated missile system that the Pentagon neither wants nor needs. The House maintained over $250 million for the account, no doubt hoping to preserve a place for future appropriations. By zeroing out funds for developing a system the Pentagon has asserted it will never procure, Senators have saved taxpayers over $800 million over the next two years.

[92nina]

"...The debt limit debate shifted the focus entirely onto the government's overspending problem, momentum that should propel deeper spending restraint when Congress returns in the fall to confront expiring authorization bills..."

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious

[SkyPilot]

Blah blah blah.

No one seems to "get it."

This deal does nothing to curb Entitlements: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.

Until that beast is fought, nothing will matter - and we will step closer to economic Armageddon.

[92nina]

Your point is well-taken.

[familyop]

Big government socialists at every level (including local with their federal funding) want to cut defense and/or Social Security. They don't want their anti-family, sexual confusion or anti-domestic-competition programs cut. Have a look at the share for HHS below.




So the default process will commence, thanks to the lying, obstructive thieves promoting sexual confusion, family-busting and fights against new, small manufacturing operations from so many non-essential positions in all levels of government.

[familyop]

Let's try that with the chart.

Big government socialists at every level (including local with their federal funding) want to cut defense and/or Social Security. They don't want their anti-family, sexual confusion or anti-domestic-competition programs cut. Have a look at the share for HHS below.




So the default process will commence, thanks to the lying, obstructive thieves promoting sexual confusion, family-busting and fights against new, small manufacturing operations from so many non-essential positions in all levels of government.

[familyop]

Public Sector Pay Overshadows the Private Sector
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2758121/posts