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Their message to Americans: You can't do anything for yourself, and you will die if the government doesn't provide for you Did you know you will not have anything to eat if the government doesn’t give you something? Did you know there’s no way to get health care if the government doesn’t provide you with insurance? Did you know that you will be thrown into poverty if you’re not the beneficiary of a government welfare program? Did you know all this? Neither did I. Because it’s all nonsense. But now that President Trump’s full budget proposal is out, House Democrats...

en. Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, had a press conference scheduled for today unveiling his plans for a five-year path to a balanced budget. - Reduces spending by nearly $4 trillion relative to the President's budget - Achieves a $19 billion surplus in FY2016 - Brings all non-military discretionary spending back to FY2008 levels - Requires the process of entitlement reform, including Social Security and Medicare, with final implementation by FY2016 - Does not change Social Security or Medicare benefits - Block-grants Medicaid, SCHIP, foods stamps, and child nutrition · Provides the President's request for war funding - Reduces military...

The Washington Post reports that Barack Obama is finishing up his budget proposal, and if their information is at all correct, it must be defeated at all costs. Yes, our economy is hurting right now. Rather than heal it, Obama's budget would euthanize the economy. President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said. If Obama intends to try to...

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed $125.6 billion state budget moves in the "wrong direction" by using a temporary surge in tax revenue to expand programs rather than pay down debt, Legislative Analyst Liz Hill said yesterday. The nonpartisan analyst said the governor's budget would widen a deficit the state has been struggling with for six years, producing a budget gap of $5 billion to $6 billion next year. "Our concern is that we are expanding spending at a time when we have a significant state budget problem," Hill said. "We would urge using more of the unanticipated revenues to...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new budget unveiled Tuesday contains no pay raises for the 156,000 rank-and-file state employees whose contracts have expired or are scheduled to run their course this year. Finance Director Mike Genest said the administration didn't include money for raises because "we don't want to presage what we plan to do at the negotiating table" with the nine unions representing 18 bargaining units that are already at the table or are about to take their seats across from the state's representatives. Genest said "it's not uncommon" for the state to refrain from putting money in the budget for...