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The Spectacle Blog
My latest at the Center for Individual Freedom explains how Congress continues to overspend. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama keeps fighting against the bad guys, however. See it all here.
Here are a couple of the paragraphs:
Back in April, more than three-fifths of the Senate voted to directly violate the budget agreement reached during debt-ceiling negotiations, by spending $34 billion more during the next 10 years on the Postal Service than the agreement allows. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, raised a point of order against the budget-busting bill, but the Democratic majoritysteamrolled right past him.
Sessions now complains that Senate budgeteers overall are adding $14 billion more in debt for 2013 alone than the budget deal allows. “This is how a country goes broke,” Sessions wrote in a letter to retiring Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota.
There’s lots more where that came from.
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Bob Grant| 6.14.12 @ 10:40PM
To add to our Federal spending woes, Fox Business News reported last night that J.P. Morgan, underwriters of state and local pension funds, has a top secret document that reveals states are not underwater by a mere 900 billion dollars, the amount most people thought was correct, but 5 TRILLION dollars!!
Yep, 5 TRILLION dollars of underwater state and local pensions!!!
The hits keep coming.
Folks, Greece is here!
Read about it on FOX Business News.
Oldefarte| 6.15.12 @ 1:16PM
The essential of Quin's editorial is that '.....Back in April, more than three-fifths of the Senate voted to directly violate the budget agreement reached during debt-ceiling negotiations, by spending $34 billion more during the next 10 years on the Postal Service than the agreement allows......' Of course, the ''''''Senate'''''' does thus, SINCE IT'S LEGISLATIVELY CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS. To my limitied knowledge, this control means essentially that Democrats can block any legislative movement by Sessions or any other Republican which may seek to decrease the governmental expenses, be it welfare or any other. IOW, they're EXCREMENT IN THE WIND! The solution is to elected more Republicans in November and hopefully produce a Republican POTUS and both houses of congress, whereupon there will be NO MORE EXCUSES THEREAFTER. In the mean time, I'd suggest/request that conservative publications concentrate on outing any/all Republican congressmen by name and state that vote FOR such governmental expense increases and thereafter request that its readers contact their congressmens' political offices and demand that they stop voting FOR such taxpayer-unfriendly BS [otherwise they had better start dusting off their resumes for alternative employment]!!!!!!!!!