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    Tag: Spending

    We Hear You Mr President


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Oct 04, 2013 at 07:44:27 AM EST
    Tags: One Bite At a Time, CD1, Congress, Power Of The Purse, Article1 Section 9, IRS, NSA, Obamacare, HUD, EPA, DOE, Spending, Appropriations, Constitution, Michigan, Health Care, Purse Strings, Section VIII #1, The Power Of Congress, Candace Miller, Dave Camp, Bill Huizinga, Justin Amash, Mike Rogers, Dan Benishek, Tim Walberg, Fred Upton, Kerry Bentivolio (all tags)

    Ted Cruz is spot on.

    The role of the US House is supposed to be fund as needed, and not as a great big package.  The President as Cruz explained, called out the dangers of veterans services and parks being put at risk by the GOP led house holding off the big package.  The US House responded appropriately and offered funding only to have it rejected by Harry Reid.

    Huh go figure.  Michigan GOP Reps pay attention.  KNOW that you are winning FOR the country.

    This guy is brilliant.

    (3 comments) Comments >>

    Rep Walberg Votes to Fund Veterans and Open National Parks


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Wed Oct 02, 2013 at 09:18:31 AM EST
    Tags: One Bite At a Time, CD1, Congress, Power Of The Purse, Article1 Section 9, IRS, NSA, Obamacare, HUD, EPA, DOE, Spending, Appropriations, Constitution, Michigan, Health Care, Purse Strings, Section VIII #1, The Power Of Congress, Candace Miller, Dave Camp, Bill Huizinga, Justin Amash, Mike Rogers, Dan Benishek, Tim Walberg, Fred Upton, Kerry Bentivolio (all tags)

    Credit where it is due.

    In fact, I should have eight other press releases similar to this one.  Tim Walberg (CD7)yesterday, voted in favor of legislation that would provide funding for the National Park Service and the Veterans Affairs Department. However,both pieces of legislation failed by not gathering enough Democrats to reach the two-thirds required for final passage.  We have discussed this (quite appropriate)strategy on these pages recently.  Walberg says:

    "President Obama and Congressional Democrats are already on record as supporting a piecemeal approach to keeping the government funded. It's disappointing some of my colleagues in the House do not feel as strongly about veteran services and disability claims, national parks and other areas of importance.

    I remain committed to finding a compromised way to move this country forward. We deserve better."

    Solid.

    Reality, is that Obama and Reid have said they will not negotiate.  The GOP led US House is completely in the correct mode holding out specific funding legislation for what might be perceived as an immediate need, while other negotiations (and hopefully complete dissolution of Obamacare) are being made.

    Any suffering as a result of non funding is the result of the Democrats' stubbornness, and the President's absolutism.

    (7 comments) Comments >>

    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    One Bite At A Time


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Mon Sep 30, 2013 at 08:55:17 PM EST
    Tags: One Bite At a Time, CD1, Congress, Power Of The Purse, Article1 Section 9, IRS, NSA, Obamacare, HUD, EPA, DOE, Spending, Appropriations, Constitution, Michigan, Health Care, Purse Strings, Section VIII #1, The Power Of Congress, Candace Miller, Dave Camp, Bill Huizinga, Justin Amash, Mike Rogers, Dan Benishek, Tim Walberg, Fred Upton, Kerry Bentivolio (all tags)

    The old question of how one might eat an elephant could see a fiscal analogy if a miracle of courage and determination sets into the Republican dominated US House.

    Congress has already set an example of continuing resolutions, and money spending sans a budget, balanced or otherwise. Frankly, the role of congress has become that of enabler and cash valet to the spenders elsewhere in government, and little more.  Competing special interests over the years have created some form of acceptance that ALL issues are important enough to fund fully, and no congress critter majority has been able to (as a whole) suppress the need to please.

    Its now a different world.  The stakes are higher, there is a tyranny begging to be funded, and the people are screaming at the top of their lungs that ENOUGH is ENOUGH!

    And something happened in the meantime that should give us hope.  Letting a little steam off the pressure cooker that is Washington DC, the president is at the time of this writing, expected to sign a bill guaranteeing pay for military services and members in the event of a 'shut down'.

    "The measure would also ensure continued pay for civilian employees of the Defense Department and Pentagon contractors whom Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel determines "are providing support to members of the Armed Forces." "
    Big deal, no?

    Think about it as one less thing the president can hold over the Republicans in congress. And the fact is, he really MUST sign it.  Otherwise the tables are turned hard on him.

    And it is pure gold that should not be squandered.

    Listen up GOP, you had best go below the fold and pay close attention.

    (3 comments, 591 words in story) Full Story

    The Power Of The Purse


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 09:59:07 AM EST
    Tags: Michigan, CD1, Congress, Power Of The Purse, Article1 Section 9, IRS, NSA, Obamacare, HUD, EPA, DOE, Spending, Appropriations, Constitution (all tags)

    Dear congressman, keep your damned finger off my chest.

    Dr Benishek, you may not have realized it, but the minute that fat digit put its pressure on my breastbone and the words "We don't control the spending" came out, you lost a hell of a lot of respect and support from this concerned (and informed) citizen.  I have thought long and hard on how to broach this subject since our convention discussion.  Could it be that you do not understand your role as a congressman, and the powers vested in you and the house of representatives?  Perhaps you still do not understand that the power of the purse is yours, but Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 is clear.

    "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

    MY own opinions notwithstanding, there are other more scholarly types who would agree; congress CAN stop Obamacare, NSA, the IRS, HUD, EPA etc., and there is little the president can do. Heritage puts it this way:
    "The Appropriations Clause is the cornerstone of Congress's "power of the purse." It assigns to Congress the role of final arbiter of the use of public funds. The source of Congress's power to spend derives from Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. The Appropriations Clause provides Congress with a mechanism to control or to limit spending by the federal government. The Framers chose the particular language of limitation, not authorization, for the first part of the clause and placed it in Section 9 of Article I, along with other restrictions on governmental actions to limit, most notably, executive action.

    The language is clear enough, but there is more. Go below the fold.

    (4 comments, 839 words in story) Full Story

    Tuesdays Divertere: Litmus Test - Will You Fire On Americans?


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Tue Jan 29, 2013 at 07:12:38 PM EST
    Tags: China, US Natural Resources, Coal, Oil, Farmland, Bank of China, National Debt, US Debt Ceiling, Spending, Monkey man, Obama, Cultural Marxism, New Left, Democratic Party Socialists, Republican Apologists, Internationalists, Fast and Furious, UN Small Arms Treaty, Tyranny, August 1 - 2. 1946, West Point, Defining Domestic Terrorists, Flag Officers, Katrina, House to house Confiscation, Trial Operations, Miami, Huston, Oaths, Choices, Just following orders?, SHTF?, Constitution, un-a-LIEN-able, 2A, Dr. Jim Garrow (all tags)

    America's conscience is responding with strengthening itself against tyranny, while our governmental protectors now practice maneuvers in Miami, and Huston, that desensitize, and hone skills as is observed here.

    Interesting times we live...

    (3 comments) Comments >>

    Michigan US Reps Kick The Can .. Again


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Wed Jan 23, 2013 at 02:03:24 PM EST
    Tags: US Debt Ceiling, Spending, U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan (all tags)

    Republicans raise the debt ceiling for Team Obama spending.  More borrowing for obscene levels of spending now approved though May 19, 2013.

    Ayes: Benishek, Bentivolio, Camp, Huizenga, Miller, Rogers, Upton, and Walberg.

    Noes: Amash

    Thanks, Justin.  And, to the rest of you?  You're a spineless disgrace.

    (4 comments) Comments >>

    New Film About America's Bubble Economy


    By LibertyTyler, Section News
    Posted on Sat Jul 21, 2012 at 05:37:55 PM EST
    Tags: Economics, Debt, Spending, Bubble, Obama (all tags)

    The Bubble Film Website and trailer

    The Bubble," a new film featuring experts that predicted the last economic crisis, argues America is facing an even worse financial bubble. Business leaders, politicians and financial commentators such as Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Marc Faber, Jim Grant and 10 others examine Washington's economic policies and its impact on America. The film is co-written by Dr. Tom Woods and inspired by his New York Times best seller "Meltdown."

    (343 words in story) Full Story

    And In Other News... It's Dark Outside At Night


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 04:26:56 AM EST
    Tags: Granholm, Spending, Taxes, Snyder, Goonion Labor, Two Auto Bankruptcies, 1000000 Jobs Lost, Michigan still sucking hind teat (all tags)

    The astute economist team at U of M has brilliantly deduced that two terms of Granholm spending and goonion labor costs that bankrupted two auto makers placing Michigan at the bottom now just hovers above the bottom, for years to come.

    ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- A continued rebound in manufacturing will help Michigan add jobs and end its economic downturn over the next two years, but recovering the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost since 2000 will take far longer, a University of Michigan economist said Friday.

    "Once Michigan's curse, the concentration of manufacturing has now become its blessing," George Fulton said at the university's annual economic forecast conference.

    The state is on the upswing, albeit slowly. Fulton said he expects it will end 2011 with its first net job increase in 11 years, having added 64,200 positions. With the expected addition of 32,000 jobs in 2012 and 45,000 in 2103, the state's likely to see its unemployment rate drop from 10.6 percent now to around 10 percent in 2013.

    The farce in U of M's figures?

    Michigan is struggling to replace the 857,000 jobs it lost between 2000 and 2009,..

    Wrong.  Jenny said she lost 1,000,000 jobs.  So, based up their "the state to have regained about 178,000 of the lost jobs through 2013" since the GoverNerd has been in Office, at that pace, in another 18½ years from now the state should be at about the break even point in jobs.  Oh! ...and with that higher GoverNerd State Income Tax too.

    (2 comments) Comments >>

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