ICYMI: BIPARTISAN BUDGET DEAL
Feb 9, 2018Why do ‘bipartisan budget deals’ always INCREASE spending? What’s wrong for once with an agreement that reduces the burden of federal spending and debt on the economy?
The House passed each of the appropriations bills to get government funding done right, but the Senate jammed through a deal we had not agreed to- and one I won’t. The ‘agreement’ busts the budget caps set forth in the 2011 Budget Control Act by nearly $300 billion over just two years. In 2011, Republicans insisted on spending reductions, which resulted in the BCA, before they’d agree to increase the debt limit.
However, it now appears that #ShutdownSchumer has won the day by throwing what he terms as the BCA’s ‘pointless and arbitrary sequester caps to the ash heap of history’, and in the process, sentencing our kids to a lifetime of unsustainable debt that their generation will be forced to pay.
I cannot in good conscience support that.