Posted on 09/14/2012 6:11:12 AM PDT by SueRae
The stop-gap government funding measure approved on Thursday staves off the threat of a government shutdown for six months, leaving some important spending decisions to a newly elected Congress.
While the so-called continuing resolution is largely considered a "clean," or non-controversial, extension of spending, it does contain funding increases for some specific programs and activities.
Here are key details of the measure, which heads to the Senate with a Sept. 30 deadline for enactment:
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INAUGURATION
It also specifies that $8 million be set aside to support for a TRANSITION BETWEEN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS.
How about passing a budget....
Which can be used for Michelle’s clothes, her entourage and a few vacations...if there is no change.
But I am pretty sure it does not address the automatic spending cuts at the end of the year, for better or worse.
Watching Republicans whine about these cuts they voted for in the bill they praised, and now saying that defense government jobs keep the economy going after 2+ years of saying gubment jobs HURT the economy, is too much.
I watched Michelle Bachman last night...she voted against it.
It also doesn’t say this helps at all with sequestration... we are so screwed. We need adults back in charge.
Not every government job is a bad job. And just because it’s a job in the defense industry doesn’t make it a good one. But generally speaking, I think there is a huge difference between jobs that support the defense of our country (one of the fundamental reasons for having a federal government) and jobs that provide bureaucratic staffing for functions that should not be part of the federal government. Those would include anything in the education department, HHS, and many more.
Seeing how things have turned out, I’d be inclined to eliminate TSA, DHS (sounded like a good idea at the time), most of the agencies that are currently in the news for buying ammunition (or at least the armed branches of them), and any federal agency that is involved in personal and private matters, such as child “protection” services, dietary dictators, etc.
And while I’m at it, I’ve long been in favor of eliminating the IRS. Top of my list, in fact.
The bottom line is that Harry Reid has kept the country hostage ever since Obama was elected, by blocking the senate from even taking budget requests through committees.
So, weirdly enough, we are still using the last W. BUSH budget!
The government only functions because of the use of “continuing resolutions” that keep using this last Bush budget. The Republicans are effectively BLACKMAILED into having to agree to it, because if they refuse, two things will happen:
1) All non-essential parts of the government will shut down.
2) The MSM, with the full complicity of the Democrats, will launch a massive, coordinated propaganda campaign against the Republicans, blaming *them*, exclusively, for “shutting down the government”. It would be the most hypocritical thing imaginable, but would convince the majority of Americans, at least in corrupt, Democrat-controlled political polls, that it *was* the Republicans’ fault.
How can I say this with such certainty?
BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THE MSM AND THE DEMOCRATS DID LAST TIME, UNDER BILL CLINTON!
And they got away with it. The public did blame the Republicans for the shutdown; or at least the media and the pollsters, working with the Democrats, *said* that the public blamed the Republicans.
Okay, what does this mean?
1) If the Republicans just pass this one, final continuing resolution, it is likely that the elections will result in a Republican congress and senate, and a Republican president.
2) Once in power, after January 20th, 2013, the Republicans can *finally* create a NEW budget, and Harry Reid and his minions cannot prevent them from doing this.
But on the down side, the Democrats are now threatening to destroy the economy if they lose power in the elections, by continuing to do nothing. AND THEY CAN DO THIS.
Why? Because in the first part of January, the Bush tax cuts will expire. All sorts of punitive and vindictive, anti-business laws and regulations will come into effect, and likely, the scoundrel in charge of the FED, and the scoundrel in charge of the US Treasury will rapidly make financial decisions that will quickly throw the US into a massive depression.
So, for heaven’s sake, please get your personal stuff together, so that if the Democrats do manage to severely harm the economy, you personally will be able to tide over until the Republicans can restore order. But it may be a month or two or three.
The timetable for Democrat chaos is mid-November through January 21. If they haven’t been able to foul things up by then, the economy and the country itself will be able to recover in a year or two. But at least things will not get markedly worse, all else being equal.
Well duh, Republicans like Defense spending more and Dems like social spending more. They both will defend their turf which is why we are here with these cuts coming.
That doesn't change Republicans flipping 180 on Keynesian's economic claims, Its Bad in 2010, good in 2012. Gives you an idea a Romney POTUS.
I hear you loud and clear.
Boehner rammed though that bill after a closed door agreement with Dems and McConnell and then bragged about his twisting House R arms to get the vote.
Ryan really looks bad because he not only voted for it but he praised it on camera recordings, and now he is trying to say he opposed it in interviews. Then he says it does what he didnt intend it to do, those defense cuts(??). He looks as dishonest as Obama or Romney does when he talks about this.
gilbo said it best, he said “So the budget boy wonder thought that the others would cut their gravy trains to protect his?”
So ridiculus.
There are no adults in DC
Pay attention, Ryan explains it perfectly right here without the MSM spin.
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/248337-ryan-defends-vote-for-sequester-deal
O'DONNELL: Congressman, these defense cuts are part of the Budget Control Act. You voted for the Budget Control Act. In fact I went and looked, you put on the a statement at the time it was passed and you called it a victory, and you called it a positive step forward.
So, you voted for defense cuts. And now you're criticizing the president for those same defense cuts that you voted for and called a victory.
RYAN: No, no, I have to correct you on this, Norah. I voted for a mechanism that says a sequester will occur if we don't cut $1.2 trillion spending in government. We offered $1.2 trillion in various — the super committee offered it. We passed in the House a bill to prevent those devastating defense cuts by cutting spending elsewhere. The senate's done nothing. President Obama’s done nothing.
“Face the Nation” transcripts, September 9, 2012(page 2)
also at the time :
Here is Ryan's speech praising this bill and the bipartisionship involved:
"We are actually cutting spending when we do this. That's cultural. That's significant. That's a big step in the right direction. "
Paul Ryan: Bipartisan Budget Control Act Marks a Cultural Shift in Washington
No mention of being against any budget cuts in the bill.
hehehehe...he needs all the spin he can get... basically his defense of his vote is 'i trusted that a pack of thieves, would later vote to cut their own pork products, and by extension commit political suicide, in order to keep the DOD bucks flowing'...???
is that his explanation in a nutshell ???
well, at least he can fall back on his proposed budget plan...
Well if his House R budget cut plan was the one he really thought was important then he and Boehner should have passed that one 13 months ago instead of this one that he is disowning now, that he praised a year ago, after cutting a closed room ‘ historic bipartision deal‘ with Reid and Pelosi. So much for Ryan historical moments.
Obama was happy with NO cuts, it was House+Senate Republicans that demanded budget cuts in that bill they voted for. AGHHH
This bill is just a case where the dishonesty is so obvious (to everyone) that it enrages me, that and that phony Medicare trust fund they all fall back on. It make it impossible for me to defend them on it.
Before I forget, I still love Michelle Bachman, thanks for the update on her. I liked her in the primary too even if she didnt have a chance.
When we are spending 1+ trillion over budget on unconstitutional domestic crap cutting the military is just insane.
That is not what Ryan said when he voted for it and praised it. See :#14
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