Comments on: Spratt Pushing For U.S. Debt Hike

By: Carolina Politics Online » Spratt Added to GOP Target List for 2010

Carolina Politics Online » Spratt Added to GOP Target List for 2010 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:51:10 +0000

[...] White House, Spratt has voted against the district’s interest on every major issue and his latest support for hiking the debt ceiling to $13 trillion probably won’t help him [...]

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:44:20 +0000

Theo,
Your numbers, not surprisingly, are totally wrong. First, the previous knuckleheads left a systemic deficit that will require a cut in entitlements, discretionary spending and tax hikes. And Obama has not written a budget yet – the 2009 budget was done during the previous administration. And even if he had, the budget deficit is 1.7 (including half of which was TARP proposed and passed the previous administration) – Bush added over 5 billion in his first seven year and left a 1.3 deficit in is final budget. Learn read. Learn to count.

By: TheBadger

TheBadger — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:10:35 +0000

What we need are a balanced budget amendment and a term limits amendment to prevent this kind of nonsense. Congress will never pass these, though, because they like spending our money to help themselves get reelected, and they don’t want to vote themselves out of office.

Article V of the Constitution lets the states circumvent Congress to get amendments passed. All we need are 2/3 of the state legislatures to request a constitutional convention to propose amendments. I found a website called FixitTogether.org that is trying to get the state legislatures to do this. Check it out!

By: theo

theo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:51:49 +0000

Thanks for history lesson Mr. Hendricks.

I understand the Democrats have owned Congress since 2006 and thus have controlled the purse strings.

I don’t recall any attempt by the Democrats to balance the budget over the past three years.

I understand, however, that Mr. Obama has increased the national debt more in 1 year than President Bush in 8 years.

By: Steve Ewankowich

Steve Ewankowich — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:10:35 +0000

Stop the madness – Do not raise the debt ceiling!

By: OhNoNotAgain

OhNoNotAgain — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:29:26 +0000

Spratt can’t use that as an out on all of this. Much as I like him.
The House has been Democratic since the 2006 mid-terms. The budget originates there.

By: countryboy

countryboy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:26:43 +0000

Or maybe it’s York. Anyhow, he’s been in DC so long that’s his home.

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:31:35 +0000

Countryboy,
We had a balance budget – you know, before Bush. Spratt was involved in all those budget negotiations.
The sad fact is that we didn’t get here by Pelosi alone. Though she shares much of the blame. We got here by cutting taxes, fighting wars and increasingly entitlement spending while running the economy into the ground. Recipe for disaster. Or we can blame it welfare or Acorn. Whatever is easier.

And he’s from York, not Rock Hill.

By: countryboy

countryboy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:06:47 +0000

When Spratt first ran for office, it is a fact that one of his main goals was eliminating the deficit. How far he has fallen. He has come full circle to being a Pelosi liberal, in direct contrast to his constituents. Time to send his fat ass back to Rock Hill for good.

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:37:50 +0000

You’re right, the party is over – time to raise taxes, cut discretionary spending and curb entitlements. But I’d wait until we come out of the worst economic downturn in 70 years before doing it. Better yet, maybe we can get the Republicans back in charge of the deficit. It’s not like they took a massive surplus and turned it into a systemic, annual trillion dollar deficit while putting the economy in a ditch.

Oh right.