Color me cynical, but I can't say I'm shocked by this.
Al I can say is we are witnessing the greatest failure of leadership in our nation’s history, at all levels of government. Corporate stewardship is not much better.
It's all accounting gimmicks. It's the spending, not the bookkeeping.
We need a balance budget amendment to the US Constitution, but given the way Obama and now Congress with their Super Committee BS the Constitution is about gone and it wouldn’t mean much.
I'd rather see some amendment requiring a balanced budget. We can deal with the spending level issue later.
I think it would be best to propose two amendments: one that requires a balanced budget, and another to cap the spending at something like 20% (which is what the tax level has been for decades, despite various changes).
Let the states decide whether to ratify one or the other, or both. You might be surprised at the outcome.
Wow ! Cantor? Really?
THROW THEM ALL OUT !
that headline made my head explode.
No matter what they say on the campaign trail, the professional GOP Establishment politicians all go to DC and turn into Democrat lite.
big whoopie flip.CRAct amendments and Dodd/Frank bills need deleted. and ALL senate and congress 75% pay cut no raises and no insider trading,immediate cut on all pages,staf,no more vacations until the budget is balanced.
Just confirming that my favorite Liberal Pat Cadell is right when he calls the GOP “the stupid party”.
I don’t mind them voting on it as long as they vote NAY.
The Federal Government does to us, what Jerry Sandusky did to those kids.
The good news is that there’s a call to have the constitution changed to require a balanced budget.
The bad news is that under that law taxes must be increased to cover increased spending.
The really bad news is that there is a percent of income that a household needs to both survive, launch, and continue to produce.
Greece is learning that it is possible to kill a nation from within.
Liberals will vote this down in the Senate and the GOP can run on this in 2012.
It is an election-year ploy by our side and it is a smart move.
Stop mixing ideology with politics......they don’t go together.
This is how Republicans operate. They’ll usually make the wrong choice. I hope the House votes down this bill.
I doubt congress pays any income taxes. There’s no way to prove it. They can put out any bogus paper they want. And since they control the IRS’s budget the IRS will help them fool us. Hey, we’re easy to fool.
We the people should have marched on the capital with torches and pitchforks decades ago. It’s too late now.
As for the economy, etc. These congress people have already lined their pockets with our money so all they’re doing is making themselves richer while waiting on the crash.
And my tag line doesn’t even work anymore. I believe most of the tea party candidates had read THE PRINCE. They jumped in front of the crowd and yelled “Follow me!”
There could be a second party, third party, fourth party or dance party and the same type of people will run. Good honest working people can’t afford to run.
Let them spend as much as they want except it must come out of their pay check, not mine.
Are these fools trying to start a revolution?
OMG. If this passes, it’s over.