Republicans to the President and Democrats: #NoBudgetNoPay: With Debt Undermining Our Economy, a Budget Should Be Passed that Cuts Spending (Video)

Hopefully the House Republicans will grow a set and actually go through with this and if the Democrats refuse to pass a budget, shut down the government until they’re ready to follow the law. Democrats want no budget, no debt ceiling while demanding more taxes on everyone.

From Speaker.gov:

To give Congress time to pass a budget, the House of Representatives will vote this week on a temporary three-month debt limit increase. But if the House or Senate fails to pass a budget in that time, Members of Congress will not be paid. Here are some facts to remember:

• “The principle is simple: no budget, no pay,” said Speaker John Boehner. “Before there is any long-term debt limit increase, a budget should be passed that cuts spending.”

• The last time Senate Democrats passed a budget was April 29, 2009 – nearly four years ago – “a shameful run that needs to end,” says Speaker Boehner. The Wall Street Journal said, while “the House works its will, the Senate does crossword puzzles.”

• “We should cut Washington’s budget, not your family’s budget,” says Rep. Lankford. House Republicans have already passed two budgets that cut spending and address our debt. Rep. Lankford says the House will pass another one to “pay our bills and keep the government running” – one that “walks our nation out of debt, deficit and decline.”

• President Obama has missed the legal deadline for submitting a budget more than any previous president, and suggested this year’s budget will be late too. “Ordinary folks … meet deadlines,” says the president. He just can’t seem to meet his.

• President Obama’s jobs council hasn’t officially met in more than a year. The House, on the other hand, passed 40 jobs bills that were blocked by Senate Democrats.

• Fitch Ratings made it clear that our national debt is undermining our economy and spending needs to be cut. Driven by out-of-control spending, more than $5 trillion has been added to the national debt since Senate Democrats last passed a budget.

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to Democrats: No Budget, No Pay

Wanna bet Democrats all of a sudden will be all over passing a budget after 3 years of not doing so?

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor released the following statement about the need to pass a budget that reduces spending:

“The President’s plan to simply borrow more money without any reform in Washington puts us all at risk.

“The first step to fixing this problem is to pass a budget that reduces spending. The House has done so, and will again. The Democratic Senate has not passed a budget in almost four years, which is unfair to hardworking taxpayers who expect more from their representatives. That ends this year.

“We must pay our bills and responsibly budget for our future. Next week, we will authorize a three month temporary debt limit increase to give the Senate and House time to pass a budget. Furthermore, if the Senate or House fails to pass a budget in that time, Members of Congress will not be paid by the American people for failing to do their job. No budget, no pay.

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Paul Ryan Asks Obama’s White House if They Will Obey the Law and Meet the Deadline to Submit a Budget

Hey Obama…where’s your budget?

Laws mean nothing to the dictator-in-chief. Late budgets that disobey laws. No budgets for 3 years that violate the Constitution. Despite all this, they have no problem spending our money and running up record deficits and national debt.

From The Hill:

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday asked the White House if it will once again miss the legal deadline for submitting an annual budget to Congress.

Under the law, Obama must submit a budget by the first Monday in February, but he has met the deadline only once. The annual budget submission is supposed to start a congressional budgeting process, but that has also broken down. The Senate last passed a budget resolution in 2009. 

“Given the critical importance of addressing our nation’s fiscal problems, I am writing to ask whether the President will submit his budget request this year on or before February 4 as required by law,” Ryan wrote in a letter to Acting Budget Director Jeff Zients. “If the Administration does not plan to meet the statutory deadline, when do you anticipate the request being made?”

An administration source said this month that “no decisions” had been made on budget timing this year.

[...]Ryan’s office says that Obama has missed the budget deadline by more than any president since the 1920s.

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Chart of the Day: Putting America’s Tax Hike In Perspective

 

 

FORWARD!

How long before Obama pushes the US into an economic collapse with his never-seen-before spending?

H/T to ZeroHedge

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Panetta: The Budget ‘Went to Shit’ After I Left Congress

Maybe Leon should talk to his boss and his party who have refused to pass a budget since April 29,2009.

(CNSNews.com) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says when he served in Congress, lawmakers had the “courage to make tough decisions” and balance budgets, but it “all went to s— after that.”

“I’ve spent 40 years of my life in public service in different capacities,”Panetta told soldiers at a town hall in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday.

“Obviously, every one of those positions has involved challenges that have been very special to me,” Panetta said. “In the Congress, I worked on budgets.

“Frankly, at that time we had the courage to make some tough decisions and eventually balance the federal budget,” he said. “And then it all went to s— after that.”

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Obama 2010: Paul Ryan’s Plan is a “Legitimate Proposal”…Obama 2012: Paul Ryan’s Plan Ends Medicare as We Know It (Video)

Here’s Obama in 2010 talking about Paul Ryan’s plan to save Medicare.

Flash forward to 2012:

Obama’s reelection plan: Distort, distract and divide and of course lie about Romney and Ryan.

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/no-end-to-end-medicare-claim/

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/05/obama-misrepresents-ryans-plan/

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/04/fall-preview-obama-vs-romney-and-ryan/

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/06/dccc-dials-wrong-number/

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/05/dnc-chair-throws-truth-to-wolves/

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History: Today Marks the 3 Year Anniversary Since Senate Democrats Last Passed a Budget as Required by Law

Obama’s too busy laughing, spending, campaigning and golfing!

Free Beacon reports:

Sunday, April 29, 2012, is an anniversary unprecedented in the history of American politics, marking three years since the Democratic-led Senate last complied with federal law by passing a budget.

The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 stipulates that Congress must approve a budget resolution by April 15 of each year. In the Senate, only 51 votes are needed to pass a budget, as budgets are one of the few pieces of legislation invulnerable to a filibuster. Democrats currently control 53 seats.

Democratic lawmakers have offered myriad excuses for their refusal to offer a budget, none of which hold up to scrutiny, critics say.

Most recently, Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) has suggested it would be politically unfeasible to present a budget during a presidential election year.

“If one is interested in really getting a result, the time is not yet right,” he told reporters earlier this month. “I don’t rule out being able to act more quickly. But I think the greater likelihood is it won’t come until the election.”

Few doubt that campaign politics are a motivating factor in the Democrats’ decision. More than 20 Senate Democrats are up for reelection in November, and many Republicans suspect that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) axed Conrad’s intention to propose a budget, hold a formal “mark-up” hearing, and attempt to pass it out of committee in order to spare vulnerable members from casting politically difficult votes on tax hikes, energy policy, health care, and government waste.

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Democrat Steny Hoyer: “The Fact Is You Don’t Need a Budget

Democrats are the ones who have added $8 trillion or more to the national debt from 2007 until 2012 and one way they attributed to it was by refusing to pass a budget. They refused to pass Obama’s budget. They refused to pass the Republican budget. Yet they refuse to put their own budget up for a vote….because they don’t have one and believe they’re above the law and don’t have to produce one.

Without a budget, deficits have climbed to record highs and so has the national debt. Hoyer doesn’t care about a budget because it’s not his money being spent.

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that Congress does not need an official federal budget because it can just adopt appropriations bills and authorization policies as needed to keep operating.

At a briefing with journalists on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Hoyer was asked, “Mr. Hoyer, around the same time of the State of the Union [on Jan. 24], I think it was the same day, Republicans were trying to hit Senate Democrats for 1,000 days without passing a budget, and then you talk about this milestone today, 400 days without a jobs bill in the Republican House. But then on Friday [Democratic Senator Harry] Reid said that he didn’t think they needed to bring a budget to the floor this year [and that] the Budget Control Act can serve as a guideline.”

Hoyer said: “What does the budget do? The budget does one thing and really only one thing: It sets the parameters of spending and discretionary caps. Other than that, the Appropriations committee are not bound by the Budget committee’s priorities.”

He continued: “The fact is, you don’t need a budget. We can adopt appropriations bills. We can adopt authorization policies without a budget. We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending.”

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Bernanke Addresses Economic Impact Of Having No Senate Democrat Budget Plan (Video)

Senate Democrats have not passed a budget since April 29, 2009. The results have produced record deficits, debt and a credit downgrade.

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Today, January 24th, 2012 Marks the 1,000th Day Senate Democrats Haven’t Passed a Budget

Wonder if Obama will talk about this “accomplishment” during his State of the Union campaign speech? Probably not because this goes against him politically painting Republicans as a “do-nothing” political opponents. Democrats, who controlled the House and Senate in 2010, failed to pass a budget. Democrats, who control the Senate in 2011, failed to pass Obama’s 2012 budget and rejected the Republican’s “Cut, Cap and Balance” budget. All this while never submitting a budget of their own.

Here it is January 24th, 2012 and the Democrats still haven’t passed a budget since April 29, 2009. Three years of violating the law and three years of passing continuing resolutions that have caused almost $6 trillion to be added to the national debt and a credit downgrade. Democrats could have passed a budget in 2010 without fear of filibuster, since Senate rules prevent this when dealing with a budget.

I’m guessing the blow-hard president, who loves to talk instead of listening, will duck these facts in his State of the Union campaign speech tonight?

 

 

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