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Sunday, January 08, 2012

Big Government Cannot Pay Its Bills, Again

Since Barack Obama became president on Jan. 20, 2009, the federal government has not had a budget. It did not have one for the first two years of his presidency, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, and it did not have one for 2011, when the Democrats controlled the Senate and the Republicans controlled the House.

The Senate – continuously under Democratic control during the entire Obama presidency – has not voted out and sent on to the House any annual budget since George W. Bush was president. The House sent a budget to the Senate a year ago, but the Senate rejected it and sent nothing back in return.

In the nearly three years that Obama has been in office, the government has been collecting revenue, borrowing cash and spending ravenously on the basis of what the government calls continuing resolutions – known in Washington by the initials "CR."

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Marxist media refuses to do their job and hold the administration accountable it makes you wonder who they're loyal too.

Anonymous said...

Guess the guy can't do anything right in your eyes huh? I mean really, is he any worse than the screw up before him?? I guess Obama's screw ups are just more publicly criticized though....hmmmm..wonder why??

Anonymous said...

Hey 2:55. In case you forgot, Obama promised everybody THE CHANGE. We just didnt know it was going to be Change For Worse. Its 2012 and we still hear about - Oh; Bush did it again in 2012: Wake up!

Anonymous said...

2:55
Are you stuck on stupid?
Obama has exploded the debt, and trashed the economy. What part of that don't you get?

Anonymous said...

5:42 PM

Why are you and the other guy jumping all over 255?

He asked a valid question and made a valid point. More than either of you two did.

jal said...

2:55 you are one of the reasons were in this mess now with your style of thinking

Anonymous said...

This writer is a partial idiot. The constitution charges the House with initiating budgets. So there's no way the Senate can pass one and send it to the house.