House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says that she would prefer war savings be used as a means to offset a payroll tax cut deal made by lawmakers Thursday.I heard this somewhere and found it at Talk Radio News Service.
Do you think she knows that a lot of the war is "off budget"? Does she realize that we are paying for our wars by deficit spending, as Democrats have been complaining about for a decade, and thus there is no way we can use "savings" from pulling out of Iraq and cutting back in Afghanistan to pay for anything. It is debt. It is debt piled upon debt. To paraphrase the woman talking to Bertrand Russell, it is debt all the way down.
Congratulations to both sides of the aisle in the House for coming to an agreement.
Regards — Cliff
This is the kind of space shot thinking you get shoveled at you when the Congress has determined that there is no need for a budget (Harry Reid....AND Steny Hoyer). EVERYTHING is arguably off budget....as their isn't one.....and every single expenditure made by the Federal government is dripping red...there is not one "paid for" expenditure today.
ReplyDeleteIf this were a corporation....they would have padlocked the facilities and burned the entire thing to the ground.