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Old 03-01-2012, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by jplinville View Post
It's been 1,037 days since Congress passed a budget. This would freeze Congressional pay and use it to pay the debt.

Let's see how long it takes for someone here to blame the House, when everything has been stalled in the Senate...

"Pass A Budget Now Act" Links Congressional Pay to Performance
You might want to check into high school Civics. Our government is not a dictatorship. The House does not get to dictate to the Senate. The House has produced a budget that the Senate will not approve. The House needs to re-write it's bill, coming up with something the Senate will pass. This budget contains the "Ryan Amendment", which essentially destroys Medicare, and its a big pile of crap, it's not a "budget", it's a political propaganda piece. So how exactly is the Senate at fault here? For not taking their orders from the Tea Party kooks who run the House? The guys who wrecked the economy with the "Debt Ceiling" fiasco?

Given the utter fiscal irresponsibility of these lunatics, it is no wonder no one wants to step in that pile of poo they call a budget. In their "debt ceiling crisis", they tried to repudiate the legally incurred debt of the US, sending the markets into another nose dive and sending Americans into another round of watching their 401ks disappear thanks to Republican mismanagement. Maybe if they quite being extremist, partisan kooks and actually tried governing this country using the tools of compromise necessary to make a government of all the people work, I would think you would have somethig more to offer than just more right wing chin music.
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