[Rhodes22-list] Politics and discussion between Slim, Brad, et al.

[Philip]

Dave,
    Read the Constitution.  Just because there are volumes, does not relieve
Congress (Republican or Democrat) of their responsibility to know what they
are proposing an voting for.  The reason I say read the Constitution is the
majority of spending year to year and the mandatory entitlements are NOT
authorized except through twisted logic of the Congressional lawyers.

Philip


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In a message dated 11/10/2006 8:11:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
3drecon at comcast.net writes:

The  other thing, Dave, is ALL spending bills come out of the Congress.
The
Congress during Reagan's and Geo H.W. Bush's time was Democrat,  neither
Republican nor Conservative.  The current crop of Republicans  didn't hold
down spending and acted like Democrats and guess what happened.  . . no you
don't have to guess, read the news, they are  out.




Philip,

You and I know that Congress is a part of the problem.  We also know  that
the Congress doesn't prepare the budget, the President prepares and submits
his
budget - that's principally what the gazillion uniformed and civilian
people
in Washington do.  What the Congress does is authorize and  appropriate $.
Really that's not quite fair, Congress and  staffers do muck around in
things, but the reality is there are several thousand  Congressional
staffers and
there are hundreds of thousands of "President's"  staffers, there really
isn't
sufficient time for Congressional staffers to  prepare a detailed and
balanced
budget - that's the President's job.

Congress has wrestled with ways to develop a balanced budget, but really it
requires leadership from the President.  If the President is on board,
maybe
they can do it.  If the President could care less about a balanced  budget,
it
won't happen.  The President has the resources to make it  happen.

Dave
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