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Funny how the left ALWAYS wants to cut our defense. which is the ONE THING our Guberment is SUPPOSE TO FUND..
And yeah. lets CLOSE down all our oversees bases and bring home ALL THE TROOPS to that already 9% UNEMPLOYMENT. sounds like a HELL OF A PLAN
Surprise!It seems that things are just as partisan as ever, and both sides are still doing nothing more than playing politics.
With just two weeks left to craft a deficit reduction package, members of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction remain far from a deal, this according to both Democratic and Republican aides close to the negotiations.
Two days after Republicans on the so-called super committee, led by Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, offered a $1.5 trillion package that included, for the first time, new tax revenue to the tune of about $300 billion, Democrats are rejecting the offer.
"We have a big gap with respect to where we are on revenue," panel Democrat John Kerry told a handful of reporters Wednesday morning. "The Toomey approach will not work. We've told them that very directly. We have to find a different way to come at it."
The senior Massachusetts senator met behind closed doors in his third floor Capitol office Tuesday night with a key bipartisan core group from the committee, including Toomey, Reps. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Dave Camp, R-Mich., Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.
"This is not complicated. They've got to put real revenue on the table that helps us get the job done," Kerry said, adding that he is "still hopeful" a deal can be reached by November 23.
In reality, that deadline will hit even sooner, though. The budget crunchers at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) must get a complete product soon, in order to have time to analyze and score a bill for floor consideration. Super committee aides say CBO must then publish that score by November 21.
Read more: Super Committee Democrats Reject GOP Tax Proposal - Fox News
Typical Government mess. Call something "Super" that will be anything but super. How much in cuts are we really talking about here? $1-2 Trillion? Just a drop in a bucket. Our Debt will grow to a staggering $20 Trillion by 2015. What's $1-2 Trillion in cuts? And they can't even agree on such small cuts. Nothing "Super" about this committee. Nothing at all.
I tend to agree with you. I think the Democrats have less incentive to come to an an agreement than the Republicans.First this Super Committee strikes me as well beyond the bounds what congress is empowered to do. It also strikes me as both the Senate and the House being derelict in it's duties and assigning duties otherwise reserved for both houses to a small group of individuals. I'm also of the opinion that this is an excercise that will eventually lead right back where it started and that is cuts that will kick in automatically. or some with both sides posturing for some last minute deal.
But during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, another panel member, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., took a swipe at the so-called “dynamic scoring” that some Republican members of the deficit reduction committee reportedly are considering as a way to estimate how changes in tax policy might generate changes in the economy.
“We’ve got to come up with a plan that [the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office] will score,” said Clyburn, as opposed, he said, to “dynamic growth.” Clyburn said, “Let’s take this down to actual numbers, tax cuts, tax increases, entitlement cuts and entitlement increases.”
I tend to agree with you. I think the Democrats have less incentive to come to an an agreement than the Republicans.First this Super Committee strikes me as well beyond the bounds what congress is empowered to do. It also strikes me as both the Senate and the House being derelict in it's duties and assigning duties otherwise reserved for both houses to a small group of individuals. I'm also of the opinion that this is an excercise that will eventually lead right back where it started and that is cuts that will kick in automatically. or some with both sides posturing for some last minute deal.
I think the Whitehouse sees inaction by Congress as helping Obama politically. This crisis will be an extension of the debt limit crisis that house republicans orchestrated last summer, an action that was not received well by the public.I tend to agree with you. I think the Democrats have less incentive to come to an an agreement than the Republicans.First this Super Committee strikes me as well beyond the bounds what congress is empowered to do. It also strikes me as both the Senate and the House being derelict in it's duties and assigning duties otherwise reserved for both houses to a small group of individuals. I'm also of the opinion that this is an excercise that will eventually lead right back where it started and that is cuts that will kick in automatically. or some with both sides posturing for some last minute deal.
The Dems can turn the problem into a class war cry next year, and the Pubs can't shake their "let the rich off easy" mill stone around their neck.
When Republicans talk about "expanding the tax base", they mean poor people should pay more. Some people think we would do better growing the economy.
Yeah...by taxing the rich. What a laugher. Don't tax the poor for heavens sake...they pay to much as as it is and they create all those jobs. Moron....thy name starts with an R.When Republicans talk about "expanding the tax base", they mean poor people should pay more. Some people think we would do better growing the economy.
