Tag Archives: Federal Budget

Senator Rand Paul: Senator Paul Speaks Out Against Budget Agreement: 10/29/15

Source:The New Democrat  I actually agree with a lot of what Senator Paul said here. But he gets a couple of things wrong here. The new spending in the Bipartisan Budget Act that is for defense and domestic programs is … Continue reading

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CBPP: Robert Greenstein: Budget Deal, Though Imperfect, Represents Significant Accomplishment and Merits Support

Source:The New Democrat Looks like the parents for the House Republicans finally came home from their long extended vacation and took control over their house and children. But if I had kids like the House Republicans, especially the Tea Party … Continue reading

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Keith Hughes: The Balanced Budget Amendment Explained

Source:The New Democrat On its face I guess the Balanced Budget Amendment sounds like a good thing. The problems are several and not just the impracticality of it. That it would take two-thirds of both the House and Senate to … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen:John Stossel: U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Cutting Government

Source:The New Democrat  Just from this clip in this video Senator Rand Paul as President Rand Paul, if that ever happens, would cut about one-hundred-forty-six-billion-dollars a year. Which to anyone who lets says makes sixty-thousand-dollars a year and has maybe … Continue reading

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Bill Whittle: ‘Defense Debacle: Should Conservatives Cut Military Spending?’

I think its obvious the United States defense budget should be and has been on the table when it comes to deficit reduction. And it has been since the 2011 Budget Control Act, that was negotiated between Congress and the … Continue reading

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The Week: Opinion: Paul Brandus: The Deficit is Shrinking, But it’s Still a Huge Problem

The Week: Opinion: Paul Brandus: The Deficit is Shrinking, But It’s Still a Huge Problem Ideally what you want to do with your debt and deficit outlook, is to run deficits and even big deficits when the economy is bad. … Continue reading

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Real Time With Bill Maher: Bill Maher as a Teabagger

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher Bill Maher had me almost all the way, until he put the entire focus on the defense budget, which represents about twenty-percent of the budget. Gutting defense and corporate welfare alone won’t eliminate the debt … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: Representative Newt Gingrich- Speaking Against the House Democrats Budget (1982)

Source:The FreeState Back in the day when Newt Gingrich was a Junior Representative in the House and I would argue up to a certain extent even when then Minority Whip Gingrich became Speaker of the House, even though to a … Continue reading

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Andrew Sullivan: Why Rand Paul Matters

Source:The New Democrat  For me, though, these clips make Paul’s candidacy more appealing, not less. What the GOP needs is an honest, stringent account of how it has ended up where it is – a party that has piled on … Continue reading

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PBS: NewsHour: Economic Gap Takes Priority in President Obama’s FY 2015 Budget

Since very little of anything will be passed this year in Congress, with a Republican House and Democratic Senate, this will be a year when Democrats led by President Obama and Republicans led by House Speaker John Boehner will offer … Continue reading

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