Once again, politicians of both parties in Washington, D.C. are bickering at the margins of our nation’s $14.7 trillion deficit – with a dispute over $3.5 billion in federal funding for emergency management efforts bogging down another “quick fix” budget resolution.
Seriously … is this a joke?
Our government is spending at least $1.3 trillion this year [...]
The Non-Shutdown Math
Having milked the government shutdown threat for everything it was worth, Democrats and Republicans agreed late Friday on a spending plan for the next six months that shaves an estimated $38.5 billion off of the federal government’s $3.7 trillion budget.
That’s roughly a one percent cut, in other words … a total that is substantially south [...]
Will Folks: How I’m Dealing With The “Shutdown”
By Will Folks || First of all, to the 800,000 federal employees who are about to be furloughed as part of the government “shutdown,” I feel your pain.
Not really … but whatever.
Fortunately, since most of you have been grossly overpaid for years – including several years spanning the worst economic recession in eight decades – [...]
DeMint Rallies House GOP
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) is encouraging House Republicans in Washington, D.C. to stand firm against Democratic threats of a so-called “government shutdown.”
“Democrats have been sending signals for several months that all Republicans want to shut down the government, and we keep saying, ‘No, we don’t want to do that,’” DeMint said [...]
Top Dem “Quietly Rooting” For Shutdown
So here we are once again returning to the utterly pointless debate over a government “shutdown,” which of course wouldn’t actually shut down the federal government (at least not most of it) … and more importantly wouldn’t do a damn thing to address the root spending problem in Washington, D.C.
To recap, Democrats want to cut [...]
More Stopgap Nonsense
Two weeks … three weeks … $4 billion … $6 billion …
Once again the U.S. Congress is tinkering around the edges and delaying the inevitable, passing a stop-gap spending resolution that will keep government “running” through April 8. The measure includes $6 billion worth of spending cuts – which sounds impressive until you consider that [...]
Don’t Fear The Shutdown
As Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress continue to tinker around the edges of a rapidly-expanding fiscal calamity, it appears likely that another quick fix “continuing resolution” will be passed in order to avoid a so-called “shutdown” of the federal government.
We’ve made our thoughts regarding the threat of a shutdown perfectly clear, calling it [...]
