Right On!
Posted on NewsMax.com-By Amy Woods-On November 20, 2011:
“Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says he wants the supercommittee to come to an agreement by Wednesday “because so much is at stake,” but he says President Barack Obama is playing politics with the negotiations.
“We knew this day was coming, and we know what lies ahead,” the Florida freshman said today on ABC’s “This Week.” “We need to look no further than Europe to understand what lies ahead unless we take these issues seriously.”
Political strategy is at play, Rubio said, adding that he believes Obama “would like to run against a do-nothing Congress” in 2012.
“But I hope that doesn’t stand in the way of meaningful legislation, particularly out of the supercommittee,” he said.
The Obama administration is hindering Democrats on the supercommittee because they don’t know “how far they can go on making concessions, for example, on entitlement reform.”
“I blame the White House for a little lack of leadership on this,” he said. “It’s very difficult for the Democrats on that committee to enter into a negotiation not knowing where the White House is. They don’t want to get their legs cut out underneath them.”
Regarding the bipartisan jobs bill negotiated with Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, Rubio said there’s no reason it shouldn’t pass.
“If something like this can’t get traction, if something like this can’t pass, what does it say about our process?” Rubio said. “We believe that one of the things that’s holding back economic activity is all the bad news and impending bad news that’s coming out of Washington. We can’t sit around for 12 months and do nothing.”
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I. Why We Want the Super Committee to Fail!
Posted on Western Journalism-By BY FLOYD AND MARY BETH BROWN-On November 19, 2011:
“Washington is once again in a deal making mode, and you are about to lose again. When Congress passed the massive debt increase bill earlier this year, it abdicated legislative responsibility to craft a solution to the spiraling debt. They gave the legislative responsibility to what Congress calls the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.
The committee was then loaded with legislative “veterans” to limit the influence of the recently elected Tea Party Republicans. Since its inception, the committee has been pushing a mountain of tax increases using the popularity of the concept of balancing the Federal budget. The only question at this point is how much the two sets of Washington elites will raise taxes.
Obama and the Democrats have laid down the gauntlet. They will accept not one penny less than one trillion in new taxes, Republicans have already agreed to raise taxes by at least 250 to 300 billion. We favor another path, no agreement.
Now if you talk to the governing elite in Washington DC the resulting chaos of no agreement is the end of the world. According to the earlier passed law if the taxes are not increased, then we may actually see a decrease in the rate of spending growth.
According to this agreement, spending will be cut across the board in non-entitlement programs by a mere 75 billion a year in military expenditures and 75 billion a year in non-defense discretionary programs. Remember in Washington-speak the budget that is cut can still increase in real terms.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Total domestic discretionary spending doubled to $614 billion in 2010 from $298 billion in 2000. Even if there were a 10-year $1.2 trillion “cut,” total discretionary spending would still rise by $83 billion by 2021 because those cuts are calculated from inflated “current services” projections.”
This sleight of hand is accomplished by the way Washington budgets. The cut is actually an increase.
So expect to hear lots of scary talk over the course of the next few days about the end of the world as you know it. Children will starve, schools will close, police and fire protection will end, planes will fall from the sky and scariest of all our enemies in Iran and North Korea will rejoice.
The truth of the situation is schools should be funded by states and local communities, we shouldn’t miss one dollar because much of the money spent by DC actually raises the cost of schooling children through unnecessary regulation. The same should be true of foodstuffs. Washington actually raises the cost of food through agricultural price supports and regulations. Turn the regulation of food back to the states and let communities where regulators actually eat the food be the judge.
As for the military budget, America can absorb these cuts in defense spending if we bring our troops home from around the globe just a little faster. Maybe Obama could do something revolutionary such as defend our borders as opposed to the borders of Iraq and South Korea. And let’s strip out all the dollars stuffed in the defense budget, which is really foreign aid masquerading as defense spending.
Congress and Obama can always go back and make adjustments to the actual cuts because none of this is set to affect the budget until 2013 anyway.
We say, let’s cut the budget across the board. If not now, when?”
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II. Video: Democrat: Obama Owns Deficit Reduction Failure!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On November 21, 2011:
http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/11/21/democrat-obama-owns-deficit-reduction-failure/
III. Congress May Try Blocking Cuts if Debt Panel Fails!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By The Associated Press-On November 21, 2011:
IV. Deficit Supercommittee Nears Failure as Obama Steers Clear!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On November 20, 2011:
V. Super Committee Fails?-Posted on The New Republic-By Timothy Noah-On November 20, 2011:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/97638/super-committee-fails
VI. Breaking: Senate Rules Committee Blocks Tea Party Debt Commission Hearing on Budget Reform!-Posted on Freedom Works-By Tabitha Hale-On November 17, 2011:
http://www.freedomworks.org/press-releases/breaking-senate-rules-committee-blocks-tea-party-d
VII. The Obama Fiscal Responsibility Farce Continues-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On April 27, 2010:
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The Obama Fiscal Responsibility Farce Continues!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/the-obama-fiscal-responsibility-farce-continues/
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Jake
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