On May 27, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On May 27, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > >> And it was defeated 0-97 in the Senate: >> >> <http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/25/breaking_senate_defeats_ryan_budget_-_update_president_obamas_plan_defeated_unanimously> > > Well that was also a procedural move to allow Reid to bring it back up. You > need to pay attention to the various procedural oddities of the Senate. >> >> The Democrats didn't pass a 2011 budget when they had complete control of >> the WH and both houses of Congress. > > They never had 'complete control' of both houses of Congress, since it takes > a 60 vote majority to do just about anything in the Senate.
That's typical extremist BS, and it didn't stop the Democrats from ramming through an extremely unpopular (and increasingly unpopular) health care reform bill. Lot's of budgets have been passed with a divided house or a divided Congress and WH. It's indicative of the extremism of the current crop of Democrats in Washington that they can't get anything done without absolute control. But that doesn't mean budget reforms aren't urgent. Left, right and middle agree that major entitlement programs plus interest on the debt will consume all federal revenue by 2025. Liberals believe you can raise taxes to roughly 24% of GDP and continue borrowing for 25 years resolve the debt crisis. Conservatives believe you can cap federal revenues to 18.5% of GDP, reform entitlements, boost self-reliance incentives and reduce the size and cost of federal government to resolve the debt crisis. Rather than participate in developing solutions, Democrats simply shoot down Republican proposals without forwards any realistic proposals of their own (the O'bamster's budget was DOA and not taken seriously by anyone with functioning gray matter). It's no secret what the liberals want to do. In fact, it's laid out quite nicely by two of the 6 think tanks involved in the Peterson Foundation Initiative. You really should take a look at all six: <http://www.pgpf.org/Issues/Fiscal-Outlook/2011/01/20/PGPF-Announces-Grants-to-Six-Institutions-to-Develop-Solutions-to-Americas-Fiscal-Challenges.aspx> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
