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–Caps To Control Future Spending. The framework imposes spending caps that would establish clear limits on future spending and serve as a barrier against government expansion while the economy grows. Failure to remain below these caps will trigger automatic across-the-board cuts (otherwise known as sequestration).

Simply words on a piece of paper -- they can't constrain a future Congress like that.

No, what we need are real cuts, today. Period. project future savings all you like, but be honest about what's really being cut and what is beyond this Congress' control.

8 posted on 07/25/2011 12:51:13 PM PDT by kevkrom (Imagine if the media spent 1/10 the effort vetting Obama as they've used against Palin.)

Exactly correct.

Some past Congress thought they could impose some manner of fiscal sense and spending constraint on THIS Congress by passing a debt ceiling law.

How is that one working out towards actually constraining Congress towards living within the debt limit?

66 posted on 07/25/2011 1:55:14 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)