{"id":9145,"date":"2011-11-01T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2011-11-01T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:06:41","slug":"balancing-the-budget-in-washington-seems-to-be-very-different-than-balancing-your-budget-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9145","title":{"rendered":"Balancing The Budget In Washington Seems To Be Very Different Than Balancing Your Budget At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jeff_Sessions_official_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Jeff Sessions\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b9\/Jeff_Sessions_official_portrait.jpg\/300px-Jeff_Sessions_official_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Sessions\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/10\/31\/senator-appropriations-bill-promising-1-billion-cut-will-increase-spending-by-more-than-9-billion\/?t=1320149421\">Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0reported that according to the Democrats in the Senate an appropriations bill about the pass in the Senate includes a spending cut of $1 billion from last year. Sounds great&#8211;until you actually do the math.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Jeff Sessions pointed out some problems with the bill:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>He lamented that spending for disaster relief would increase from $101 million to $2.7 billion dollars. Sessions called such money a \u201cslush fund\u201d because it could be appropriated without being counted toward the total spending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWhy?\u201d Sessions asked. \u201cWell, it\u2019s a disaster, and disaster spending doesn\u2019t count. Don\u2019t you know?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Sessions\u2019 second concern was the mandatory spending, which is another chunk of funding that Sessions said \u201cthe bill\u2019s sponsors say you should not count \u2026 they insist that mandatory spending is not under the control [of] appropriators.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>According to the Budget Committee Republican staff\u2019s numbers, the mandatory appropriations would rise from just over $109 billion to just over $117 billion, for an increase of $8 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In total, Republicans say, that amounts to a $9.4 billion increase, none of which is counted toward the final sum, a fact Sessions called \u201clogic that only exists in Washington.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This is one example of why when Americans keep asking for spending cuts and are told that spending cuts are happening, the budget never actually goes down.<\/div>\n<div>It is time to take note of every participant in budget gimmicks that increase spending and vote them out of office next November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=917a215e-0c32-48eb-8058-60a13e20191a\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Daily Caller\u00a0reported that according to the Democrats in the Senate an appropriations bill about the pass in the Senate includes a spending cut of $1 billion from last year. Sounds great&#8211;until you actually do the math. Senator Jeff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,712,1060,1058,1059,164,711,285],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-daily-caller","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-increasing-government-spending","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-mandatory-spending","tag-republican","tag-senate","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}