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Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Ron Paul Warns "We Are In The Last Stages Of The Welfare-Warfare State"

Congress ended the week by passing a continuing resolution keeping the government funded for one more week. This stopgap funding bill was designed to give Congress and the White House more time to negotiate a long-term spending bill. Passage of a long-term spending bill had been delayed over objections to Republican efforts to preserve Obamcare's key features but give states a limited ability to opt out of some Obamacare mandates...[ZH: that longer-term bill has been agreed with the Democrats]

This type of brinkmanship has become standard operating procedure on Capitol Hill. The drama inevitably ends with a spending bill being crafted behind closed doors by small groups of members and staffers and then rushed to the floor and voted on before most members have a chance to read it. These “omnibus” spending bills are a dereliction of one of Congress’s two most important duties — allocating spending. Of course, Congress long ago abandoned another primary duty — preventing presidents from launching military attacks without first obtaining a congressional declaration of war.

The uncomfortable question raised by Congress’s abrogation of these two key functions is whether a republican form of government is compatible with a welfare-warfare state. The answer seems to be “no.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The mere fact that the dumbocrats agreed with this is sufficient proof that the RINO's caved - big-time! If President Trump signs this bill, he becomes complicit in what the house and senate are doing TO the people that elected him.

Thankfully, he beat Bernie and the HildaBeast...but if we get a true conservative to run - he's toast!

Anonymous said...

The new deal was the big lie false news that started it all. Raw deal more like it!

Anonymous said...

The comment from Scrimpy 5/2/17 edit could be its own post. What a rant.