“So glad we have President Bush in there, being a fiscal conservative and keeping the government small and spending in check. </SARCASM>”
Oh, we’re screwed. No doubt about it. You and I and every other tax-paying American that foots the bill for all of this fol-der-al free-for-all that is our current CONGRESS.
But, unless I’m mis-reading my Pocket Constitution, (given to me IN PERSON by Warren E. Burger on my Class Trip to Washington, D.C.) ‘The President’ (and that would be ANY of them since George Washington) can’t spend dime-ONE without a MAJORITY of Congress approving. Did you happen to see the last budget passed? I don’t think there are enough pixels left on the web to post a chart of that one, LOL!
But...inquiring minds want to know; where have you been? Out “voting your conscience” at the National Level while IGNORING the CongressCritter in Your Own Back Yard who takes your hard-earned dollars and hands them off to the Federal Level? *SMIRK*
So? Quit whining and get busy in your OWN Back Yard. :)
Check your Constitution (and English and Elementary Logic books..and the federal laws*) again... the President proposes a budget under the 1921 Budget and Accounting Act. Later in the process, appropriations also face a Presidential veto.
Where it takes both Congress and the Executive to spend, either could stop it, or at least make an effort that could be overridden.
Out “voting your conscience” at the National Level while IGNORING the CongressCritter in Your Own Back Yard who takes your hard-earned dollars and hands them off to the Federal Level?
Not at all. Despite my efforts, however, President Bush was quite helpful in getting a Democrat to take over the historically Republican seat of my district last time around.
*Disclaimer: IANAL.