Posted on 04/11/2019 6:35:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Utah representative Ben McAdams, a Democrat, warned ominously this week that a “day of reckoning is coming”. It’s the kind of sober language typically used to describe a climate crisis which – if we continue on with business as usual – could end human civilization as we know it. McAdams, though, was describing a decidedly less grave threat, if it can be considered a threat at all: the federal deficit.
He and 26 other members of the so-called Blue Dog Coalition – centrist and fiscally-conservative Democrats – are pushing for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit the federal government from running a deficit if there isn’t a war or recession happening. Social security and Medicare would be spared from the brutal spending cuts the amendment would bring about ... but that’s it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Bulloney. They see a Trump landslide and looong coattails, sweeping a lot of ‘Rats out of office.
Almost as rare as a fiscally conservative Republican?
What a heaping pile of —— the Guardian is!
Today’s Republican is like a democrat of my grandmother’s day. Today’s democrat is the socialist of Lenin’s Russia.
Wait, fiscally conservative Democrats...really? Isn’t that an Oxymoron?
Wait, fiscally conservative Democrats...really? Isn’t that an Oxymoron?
SS, Medicare, and Medicaid account for over half the budget.
If those are untouchable, so-called cuts are a joke.
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