On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Francis Drouillard <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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. > that's a joke within a lie...or a lie within an idiots delight...no one believes any of that garbage...because it doesn't represent anything the republicant's are doing...which is a lot of nothing. > > Rather than participate in developing solutions, Democrats simply shoot > down Republican proposals you mean proposals like these, right?: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/military-rape-victims-abortion-coverage_n_867010.html > 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). > that's odd, the same thing could be said of republicant's and it would be more honest. > > 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 > > > no secrets to what the conservatives want...bigger government, absolute control over the masses...increased wealth for the already wealthy, abolish certain rights, move the whole country back in time, to a place where the educated are few and the illiterate are many. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- 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.
