How is a cut in the rate of increase savings?
It's political doublespeak for bend over.
A Congressman is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
What a gaggle of liars these RepublicRATs are.
I'm still trying to figure out how spending the savings on other programs can be counted as "savings" rather than "re-allocation".
Hey dear, I've decided we need to save money this year, so I cut your clothing budget by $1000. In a related move, I've decided to use those savings to increase the budget for "audio-visual services".
In abstract, I'm not upset we don't vote on extending the tax cuts this year. They don't expire for a few years. I know that it is better for long-term planning to know they won't expire, but maybe doing tax cuts right before the election would be a GOOD thing to get people re-elected.
I think too many republicans see tax cuts as a vote-losing proposition, and are therefore afraid to cut taxes in an election year. In fact, if they really think that tax cuts DO hurt necessary government services, they shouldn't cut them at all, and if they DO think tax cuts are good, they should be willing to enact them and defend them in an election year.
I think that going into the next election with the tax cuts still hanging out because the democrats are blocking them would help us retain and pick up seats, as people begin to realist the problems if the tax cuts expire, leading to huge tax increases and associated slowdown in the economic growth.
IMO, RINO's in both the House and Senate got together and agreed to split obstruction of these measures between them, rather then one bearing the full brunt of ire.
At any rate, if they have time to call baseball and oil execs to grnadtsnad they have time to --
1) Get tax cuts
2) Cut spending growth
3 Pass Patriot Act
4) Pass ANWR
5) See to Judges
Otherwise don't even bother coming back to D.C. I'd rather they all stayed out of town.
I didn't notice any talk of going back to rip out the pork that Stevens and others put in an earlier bill.
The Department of Education's total budget for 2006 is $69.4B. There; I just saved 40% more in a year than the Republican "leaders" are trying to save in five, and I hardly had to try.
When is a cut not a cut? When a politician says it's one.
"How is a cut in the rate of increase savings?"
The same way that a "cut" in these high-profile programs which impact the middle class is intended to scare those voters into approving eventual tax hikes. It's the equivalent of state government cutting schools and library hours, all the stuff that really serves the public, before cutting dead weight lib programs, to make it seem that government has cut to the bone and needs more money.
This kind of move by a GOP-controlled Congress makes it obvious that the GOP in DC has finally come entirely out of the closet--it is dead set against conservative governance. Give to Club for Growth, give not one cent to the RNC.
Here is a compromise: We'll cut taxes AND spending.
These parasites have expanded the federal government by 700 billion dollars a year. But cutting 10 billion dollars off those increases, or a 1.4% reduction in the increase, is too much to ask. Sick.