AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jul 17, 2011 16:08:27 GMT -5
Rep Chris Van Hollen is claiming that Republicans are not proposing a balanced budget amendment in good faith. Here's what he had to say today on Fox News Sunday: www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/2011/07/17/reps-chris-van-hollen-jim-jordan-debate-debt-ceiling-herman-cain-talks-presidential-politHere is where you can read the text of the bill: rsc.jordan.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Cut-Cap-Balance_Act--House_FINAL_TEXT--07-15-11pdf.pdfIt's important to note that this bill is NOT AN AMENDMENT to the Constitution, but rather states that as a provision of the bill that Amendment to the Constitution be submitted to the States-- it provides no draft of any such Amendemnt, and describes the only requirement of the Amendment be that "a balanced budget 11 amendment to the Constitution, or a similar amendment 12 if it requires that total outlays not exceed total receipts, 13 that contains a spending limitation as a percentage of 14 GDP, and requires that tax increases be approved by a 15 two-thirds vote in both Houses of Congress for their ratification." So, the accusations are bold- but again, false. The Democrats must really be desperate. Their wild accusations and flaling about are a sign they might just be in a collective, party-wide meltdown...
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AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jul 18, 2011 8:08:07 GMT -5
See we got NO comment from the libs on this...
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Post by Bluerobin on Jul 18, 2011 8:09:52 GMT -5
Which party was it that started two wars and cut taxes?
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Bluerobin
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Post by Bluerobin on Jul 18, 2011 8:20:39 GMT -5
Dem, that deal with Medicare showed their true colors. This group of Tea Party Republicans has to go.
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AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jul 18, 2011 14:12:15 GMT -5
Which party was it that started two wars and cut taxes? I recall that Bush cut taxes and then we were attacked by radical islamists home-based in Afghanistan for years before he became President, and that we had general agreement by people of all political stripes, all over the world- that Saddam Hussien posed a threat; and that threat should be dealt with before Iraq became another Afghanistan. Not saying I agree with all of it- especially the nation-building aspects. What I am saying is that we have to be honest about what happened. We didn't willy-nilly get involved in two wars. We decapitated two brutal regimes-- one that directly attacked us, or helped to attack us and harboured our attackers. www.askheritage.org/whats-the-truth-about-tax-cuts/
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AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jul 18, 2011 14:15:42 GMT -5
Dem, that deal with Medicare showed their true colors. This group of Tea Party Republicans has to go. Um, you two are nuts. You are proposing that we believe there was a TEA Party during the Bush Presidency? It was precisely the fact that Republicans had lost their way on spending that helped birth the movement. The big spending Bush Presidency (with the help of Democrats in Congress-- they took over the House in 2006), and TARP was as much an impetus for the TEA Party movement as Obama.
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Post by privateinvestor on Jul 18, 2011 14:18:00 GMT -5
Is a Balanced Budget Amendment Exclusive to GOP
It may well be but Obama has promised to veto this latest attempt to balance the budget being proposed by the republicans....
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Post by ugonow on Jul 18, 2011 14:54:04 GMT -5
IMO,no.There will be a few dems for it and a few gop against it.I find it hard to believe ,for example,governors like Haily Barbour,who spoke out against the last attempt to hold up disaster relief to balance the budget will be for it..Others will see the possibility of cuts not being agreed upon and constitutionaly bound to raise taxes...... but then again,many republicans spoke out against loopholes and subsidies also....
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Post by rockon on Jul 18, 2011 15:02:55 GMT -5
I really don't care if a balanced budget amendment is exclusive or not but it has to happen or this great country is a goner. These people are stalled out just debating how much to cut the deficit over TEN years and can't even agree on that. We have to stop deficit spending now and then debate how to pay of our insane national debt over ten years. Every dollar given away on interest is a dollar that can not be used for constructive and necessary things. Our only hope at the moment is that the Tea Party can hang together long enough to impact the decisions of these elected officials who are puppets for their party. If it were not for this movement this debate would not even be happening and we would just arbitrarily increase this limit once again with no thought about the long term affects.
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