No.
If the cuts were real, there would be no need for any rise in the debt ceiling.
Cut every program or agency that is not explicitly within the Enumerated Powers. The budget will balance.
I’ll repeat what I’ve been saying since January:
Every single vote to contract debt that our generation cannot possibly pay is a vote for the enslavement of our grandchildren. It is the stripping of our posterity’s God-given right to self-government by consent.
A yes vote to raise the debt ceiling is an unmistakable signal to already-overburdened Americans that all the campaign rhetoric about fiscal restraint was merely empty talk.
I urge every member of Congress to instead move quickly to cut spending, beginning with the vast number of programs and agencies that are not among the Enumerated Powers contained in our Constitution, which they swore to faithfully support and defend. We the People must demand that they keep their word and fulfill the ultimate stated purpose of that precious document by securing the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity.
“beginning with the vast number of programs and agencies that are not among the Enumerated Powers contained in our Constitution,”
Don’t even see much talk of that on FR, but in discussions with friends and some family members, we remark that that is one humongous elephant in the room every public servant refuses to acknowledge, and though we roar on FR, it isn’t mentioned often in connection with this debt deal.
The one thing that is most intuitively obvious-— slash programs and agencies that over-reach Constitutional boundaries. If Obama has inadvertently served any good purpose, it should be that realization.
BTW, I run into your posts frequently, but tonight I looked up your page to read your thinking. It has made an impression. Thank you.