WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are increasingly divided over whether to pay for a massive emergency aid package for those hit by the storms pummeling the Midwest -- an intra-party scuffle that comes at a time of a near-obsessive focus on cutting spending on Capitol Hill.
What to do? Do the Republicans say NO....we can't afford emergency aid right now, or we need to offset it someplace else before we OK it.......even though they sent aid to Japan. Or do they admit that this IS an emergency and put together an aid package for the tornado and flood areas of our own country? Such a dilemma.
They will spend the money. The fiscal conservative will get to make their speeches but it will pass.
I would love if they find the money by cutting some other part of goverment like firing a few bureaucrats at the Dept. of Education.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
SS109 wrote: They will spend the money. The fiscal conservative will get to make their speeches but it will pass.
I would love if they find the money by cutting some other part of goverment like firing a few bureaucrats at the Dept. of Education.
Or telling a few other countries "Sorry, problems at home, we need the money we had budgeted to give to you."
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: there seems to this assumption that the GOP is fiscally responsible. Their history has shown quite the opposite. Only their rhetoric is such.
I'd say that maybe they're making noises about being less fiscally irresponsible than their democrat counterparts, but to assume that anyone with the title Senator or Representative is fiscally responsible is laughable.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: there seems to this assumption that the GOP is fiscally responsible. Their history has shown quite the opposite. Only their rhetoric is such.
True, I believe that was a factor in the dem's 06 and 08 gains and the genesis of the tea party.
Now we will need bad dog discipline.
"2. Hold your newly elected politician's feet to the fire the first time he breaks ranks on a key vote. He is like a puppy. When he leaves a mess on the carpet, get out the switch. "Bad dog! Bad dog!" Let him remember that switch"................
Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: there seems to this assumption that the GOP is fiscally responsible. Their history has shown quite the opposite. Only their rhetoric is such.
Republicans here are either ignorant, or complete phony's...And you can point it out to them 1000 times and they just keep talkin like they aren't the big spenders.....
