[rjeffries]

We lose passing a sham bill that doesn’t do anything.

Enough. I’ve been pragmatic this entire time, about not getting it all at once, but I’ve had enough of the GOP leadership. We had the freaking plan! CCB! Boehner telegraphed from Day 1 that we needed a backup.

What kind of negotiating is that? How f’n stupid can you be!? Boehner should be tossed into the streets by house conservatives NOW!

[SeekAndFind]

Until 2008, the budget for the United States remained reasonably under control. This can be seen here:



What has happened during the Obama administration? Take a look :



So, given this, What might a spending solution look like? Here's a plan I like:


The projected federal expenditure numbers from 2011 to 2018 are a "glide path" to bring federal spending back to sustainable levels. Since we are currently 6.4 percentage points over the sustainable level of 19%, 25.4% for fiscal 2011, the model presented here takes seven years to reduce federal spending back to 19% of GDP.

"Reduce" here means as a percent of GDP since the actual numbers do not decrease. It is similar to the downward slope in spending as a percent of GDP during the Clinton administration (when Both Houses were controlled by the GOP).