I wonder what "Deemed" really means? That "We the People" are stupid?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

House Democrats Deem Faux $1.1 Trillion Budget as Passed - HUMAN EVENTS

Budget ‘as Passed’ by Connie Hair

07/02/2010

Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the "deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.

House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) warned this was the green light for Democrats to continue their out-of-control spending virtually unchecked.

"Facing a record deficit and a tidal wave of debt, House Democrats decided it was politically inconvenient to put forward a budget and account for their fiscal recklessness. With no priorities and no restraints, the spending, taxing, and borrowing will continue unchecked for the coming fiscal year," Ryan said. "The so-called ‘budget enforcement resolution’ enforces no budget, but instead provides a green light for the Appropriators to continue spending, exacerbating our looming fiscal crisis."

As we reported on HUMAN EVENTS, CBO issued a dire warning about the long term outlook for the budget.

"Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office rang the latest fiscal alarm with the release of The Long-Term Budget Outlook," Ryan said. "Today, Congress again hit snooze. To avert a fiscal and economic calamity, Washington needs to wake up."

Key points from the House Republican Budget staff on the House Democrats’ deeming resolution:

- This is not a budget. The measure fails to meet the most basic, commonly understood objectives of any budget. It does not set congressional priorities; it does not align overall spending, tax, deficit, and debt levels; and it does nothing to address the runaway spending of Federal entitlement programs.

- It is not a ‘congressional budget resolution.’ The measure does not satisfy even the most basic criteria of a budget resolution as set forth in the Congressional Budget Act.

- It creates a deception of spending ‘restraint.’ While claiming restraint in discretionary spending, the resolution increases non-emergency spending by $30 billion over 2010, and includes a number of gimmicks that give a green light to higher spending.

- It continues relying on the flawed and over-sold pay-as-you-go [pay-go] procedure. Pay-go – which Democrats have used mainly to raise taxes, and have ignored when it was inconvenient – does nothing to reduce deficits or restrain spending growth in existing law.

- Outsourcing fiscal responsibilities. The measure is another hand-off by the Democratic Majority of Congress’s power of the purse – this time relying on the Fiscal Commission created by the President to do Congress’s job.

A full Republican Budget Committee staff analysis of the Majority’s Budget Deemer: "An Admission of Fiscal Failure"

The "People's House" has just assumed they don't have to pass a budget, while you

and I have to continue paying taxes to support their credit card. Is anyone else not angry over this?

[mcurrier]

It's time for torches, pitch forks, tar and feathers, a.r.'s, and whatever else it takes at this point.

[Guest Bonedaddy]

It's time for torches, pitch forks, tar and feathers, a.r.'s, and whatever else it takes at this point.

I've been practically saying this for awhile now but I actually think it's far too late for such drastic measures. How do you do it and keep China at bay and maybe Russia, who is trying its like hell to bring back their old ways, although I think it's too late for them, too. What to do, what to do?

[Mike.357]

what will the Dem's do when they can't borrow from China anymore. And that day is coming.

Deemed, what a joke.

I deem the politicians have sold our country down the river.

[Oh Shoot]

To repeat myself from another thread,

The "two party" system has become a worse tyranny than British rule ever imposed.

We once rebelled over a mere tax on tea. Just look at how far from that mentality we've become "educated" to be.

- OS

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I think they have deemed themselves irrelevant. It may

have been legal in some idiot politician's mind, but it breaks from the reason of having a House of Representatives In the first place. The party in power

needs to go away in November. They know they have

finally wrecked the economy and this may really be a depression. If the answer is to stick your head in the sand, you don't represent me, or anyone else.

[mcurrier]

If the keeps going the way it is, I foresee 300 million individual secessions from this country. Those of us with the means will be able to enforce our decision. Those without may just be screwed and may end up slaves to those they allowed to get in power. They should have thought about that before their liberal guilt and lack of thorough research caused them to vote for anti-American numbskulls that are causing this

Edited July 4, 2010 by mcurrier

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Everyone will know when the money runs out. The communists that are in charge

will eventually crumble after much turmoil and this country may have to be rebuilt,

but it will happen, even if it means losing an most of a generation doing it.

Communism always fails, and is usually painful for those gripped by it.