Glenn Beck: "We Have To Have" A Balanced Budget Amendment "Or We Don't Survive"

[Stashman]

If we don't get a Balanced Budget Amendment we will become a Muslim Caliphate with Sharia law

No, but if we don't stop foreign debt from leveraging itself against the US Government, the Treasury won't be able to print currency. You tell me what happens next.

The treasury doesn't print the money, the Fed does. Our money is not backed by anything. Not gold or silver or anything else. It is printed out of thin air. Every time the Fed prints money it devalues the dollar. The Federal Reserve is NOT a government entity, it is owned and operated by private banks. It is a banking cartel. Our government can't audit the Fed or even look at it's books. FACT.

Our dollar has a value of 4 cents as compared to what it was worth in 1913, the year of the Federal Reserve Act. Printing money right now is the very last thing we need to do. What we need to do is END THE FED!

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To simplify even more:

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Ron Paul 2012

 

[JakeStarkey]

When Rich Lowry of the National Review calls the far right of the party out for this stupidity, you know that it is stupidity.

Against the Balanced-Budget Amendment - Rich Lowry - National Review Online

July 19, 2011 12:00 A.M.
Against the Balanced-Budget Amendment
It probably wouldn’t work, and if it did, it would be even worse.

If Congress has trouble staying within constitutional bounds now, just wait until the Constitution mandates that it must balance the federal budget.

Republicans have made a late entry into the debt-ceiling debate with a push for adding such a requirement to the Constitution. The balanced-budget amendment is not only an implausible way out of the debt-ceiling dilemma — it’s unlikely to pass Congress with the necessary two-thirds vote to send it to the states — it risks doing the worst disservice to the Constitution since Prohibition.

 

[Patrick2]

When Rich Lowry of the National Republic calls the far right of the party out for this stupidity, you know that it is stupidity.

That's National Review, dumbass.

 

[rightwinger]

Psssst....its called make cuts in the budgets if there are shortfalls. That's the whole point.

Just the answer I expected

Republicans love knee jerk legislation but are unwilling to address the consequences of that legislation. Not all spending is discretionary. You want to be a tough guy on debt? Than address both spending AND revenue

The Republican solution of attacking debt by cutting programs that help struggling Americans while protecting what the wealthy have to contribute shows the it true colors

OK. Raise taxes on the 45% of the country that doesn't pay any.

Glad we can agree on raising taxes.

Why don't they pay taxes?

Because in order for Republicans to give tax cuts to the rich, they had to offer cuts to the working poor also.

Looks like Republicans want to take back those cuts on the working poor so that they can preserve them for the wealthy

 

[JakeStarkey]

When Rich Lowry of the National Republic calls the far right of the party out for this stupidity, you know that it is stupidity.

That's National Review, dumbass.

Good somebody, caught it. I was wondering.

 

[JakeStarkey]

When Rich Lowry of the National Republic calls the far right of the party out for this stupidity, you know that it is stupidity.

That's National Review, dumbass.

I am glad that we can infer that you accept Lowery's condemnation of the far right on this issue.

 

[Big Fitz]

How many would support a balanced budget amendment that included mandatory tax increases to cover any budget shortfall?

Psssst....its called make cuts in the budgets if there are shortfalls. That's the whole point.

Cutting military expenditure would be great.

This country was never meant to have a military capable of invading and conquering other nations.

That's NOT DEFENSE.

Yep. We just need one strong enough to defend both coasts, our boarder, and territories... the two front war. The problem is that everyone in the world has demanded us to come to their rescue time and time again we forgot that. I'm all for getting out of NATO, SEATO, the UN peacekeeping, every base outside of our territories, cutting back, and tightening up our own boarders.

Maybe then we can start keeping the illegals out of this country.

Yes I'm being quasi-facetious, and thehawk's still right.

 

[JakeStarkey]

thehawk's wrong, you normally are, and Rich Lowry just condemns the lame stream far right in Congress.