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No budget, no cuts, no plan
by Joseph Farah
Jan. 27, '12
It has been more than 1,000 days, the equivalent in time of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s entire presidency, since the federal government had a budget.
Most Americans don’t realize Barack Obama has operated through his entire first term without any spending plan whatsoever.
Why? Because Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress for the first two years of the Obama administration never bothered to pass one. And Democrats who control the Senate still refuse to approve one now.
Yet, this isn’t considered news by most of the major media in the U.S. – therefore, most Americans are completely in the dark about spending, revenues and borrowing.
It is in this hideously surreal and grotesque framework that Obama delivers his State of the Union message in which he calls for more spending, more borrowing, more government intrusion into our lives and more centralization of power in Washington.
What do Republicans in Congress do about it? They squawk. But it must never be forgotten that Republicans had an opportunity to stop this insanity last year and decided not only to allow it to continue but to surrender their authority to freeze borrowing until at least January 2013. House Republicans had absolute power to tear up government’s credit card in 2011 – and instead they handed Obama a limitless line of credit.
It is with this incredible backdrop that the U.S. debt exceeds $15.3 trillion – equal to the entire nation’s gross domestic product. It hasn’t been that high since World War II – when the country was fighting for its very existence. And, still, Washington stays the course – even stepping up out-of-control spending.
Don’t believe it when Republicans in Washington tell you they have somehow “cut spending.” You can’t cut spending without a budget. Without a written spending plan, what is a cut?
The rhetoric coming out of Washington from both Democrats and Republicans is Orwellian. Cut means increase. Overspending is good. Responsibility and the rule of law are bad.
How do we make sense of all this?
Can anything positive come out of such irresponsibility and recklessness?
How do we refocus the national debate in a presidential election year in which no one – not even Republicans – are recognizing the economic calamity ahead of us?
We get in their faces, that’s how.
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