[Outcast_Searcher]

I notice that a number of the Democratic proposals in the "budget cutting amendments" article are for shifting funds or even spending more. How is that budget cutting?

[Outcast_Searcher]

What am I missing for the big picture here? Recently the OMB forecast over a $1.6 TRILLION deficit for 2011. And we're already hearing all sorts of complaints and cries that world is coming to an end when trying to cut a very SMALL fraction of that.

What does this say about the liklihood of balancing the budget? We deserve our fate, and our fate looks like a gigantic version of Greece.

[Cog]

Oh the budget will balance one day. We just won't like it very much.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The White House has vowed to veto the short-term spending bill House Republicans voted on this afternoon that would provide a budgetary “safety net” while the parties work on a long-term deal.

Hours later the House passed the safety net bill anyway on a mostly party-line 247-181 vote.

Without a short-term extension, lawmakers face two options: either reach a deal on a broad bill to fund the government for the rest of this year, or else have the government shut down as of midnight Friday.

“If presented with this bill, the president will veto it,” the White House said in an official statement of policy objecting to the House’s offer. The White House said it was “a distraction from the real work” on reaching a broader agreement.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/7/senate-leader-reid-government-headed-shutdown/

[timmac]

I hope the Government shuts down and remains that way for a week or 2, we need less Government anyways and maybe send a message to those millions of Over Paid Government Workers that its your time for a Pay Cut..

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'I') hope the Government shuts down and remains that way for a week or 2, we need less Government anyways and maybe send a message to those millions of Over Paid Government Workers that its your time for a Pay Cut..

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'I') hope the Government shuts down and remains that way for a week or 2, we need less Government anyways and maybe send a message to those millions of Over Paid Government Workers that its your time for a Pay Cut..

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')What did you say your combined income is? $175,000 year. lsol

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')What did you say your combined income is? $175,000 year. lsol

[Thralen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')I'd need to know more about the temporary budget extension to have an opinion about Obama's decision to veto it. Without that extension, then the government shuts down. BUT.. if those policy riders were part of the extension, then I have to respect the president for sticking to his guns on this one.

[diemos]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', ' ')and by the way I make my own income with a service business I own,

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')your party....

[NickyBoy]

Please don't validate the stupidity of the birthers by sinking to their level.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NickyBoy', 'P')lease don't validate the stupidity of the birthers by sinking to their level.

[basil_hayden]

Haven't the last 2 weeks been....wonderful?

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hink about it, what is it with Wisconsin -- Joe McCarthy, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, all from there. Give me a Southerner isntead, please, or a New York Republican or westerner or Californian.

[Timo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hink about it, what is it with Wisconsin -- Joe McCarthy, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, all from there. Give me a Southerner isntead, please, or a New York Republican or westerner or Californian.

[Lore]

It's all a natural response to threat. A new paradigm is upon the old Anglo Saxon breeders and they haven't found a way to psychologically adjust to it.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'W')isconsin was a very strong Union State at one time. Lot's of hard working blue collar types, what happened, I don't know?

[Lore]

Cruz is far from powerful, he is just the latest wedge politician pumped up by the media. Once the corporate money flows away, which is already happening, he'll flameout along with the half governor from Alaska. It's the mess we have to clean up in these clowns wake that everyone has to worry about.