Really Paul, Patty? REALLY?!?
It's Only The Latest Budget Shafting.... Check out this photo (below). Rep Paul Ryan (r-Wi) is performing his latest obama Kare-esque cram down of yet another distasteful budget proposal that is neither fiscally conservative nor does it conform to his purported economic positions. Senator Patty " Spend-Then-Tax " Murray (d-Wa) might be thinking " Nobody's gonna go for this shit! " The proposal does nothing to fix ANYTHING, but rather screws the taxpayer out of~~ among other things ~~the modest reductions in automatic budget increases as provided by sequestration . The provisions of sequestration thus: If the joint committee is unable to achieve $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction, then two things will happen. First, the amount of additional borrowing will be limited to $1.2 trillion rather than $1.5 trillion. Also, a sequestration process is triggered to cut spending cuts of $1.2 trillion...