Posted on 06/24/2021 5:26:49 PM PDT by RandFan
@RandPaul
Still waiting for the “bipartisan deal” to cut spending and stop adding to our debt.
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Rand not impressed with the “bipartisan deal” on infrastructure.
You can put him down as a No.
Don’t hold your breath Rand. You’ll die before you see anybody in Washington restrain spending.
That’s never going to happen.
People insist on re-electing the same people who caused all of this.
Waiting for Godot has better odds that hoping in Democrats.
Never going to happen with base line budgeting.
The Uniparty will never do it.
They’re obsessed with big government and big spending.
It can only go on for so long.
Why the Hell Republicans negotiating this crap aren’t bringing up the infrastructure bill from 2009?
What happened to the money from shovel-ready jobs? Who was the VP back then?
No Republicans should work with this fake President.
There is some ancient saying comes to mind about palms and nether regions and races. But, crickey, what did they know?
It went back to the Treasury. The reason it wasn't spent is because there were few shovel-ready jobs thanks to environmental regulations. Obama could have issued an executive order suspending environmental regulations for those projects, but that would have enraged the green lobby, which was part of his winning coalition. So some of the money was spent, but the lion's share went back to the government.
Good one, Rand!
But then congress already took care of this long ago:
Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm–Rudman–Hollings_Balanced_Budget_Act
The House passed the 1985 bill by a vote of 271–154 and the Senate by 61–31, and President Ronald Reagan signed the bill on December 12, 1985.
Nobody is paying off anything.
Who do we owe anyway?
I’m hoping they can keep up the juggling act for at least ten more years.
China, Japan, the Fed etc.
Stop spending on gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan.
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