Last time I read the Constitution, I remember seeing something in there about appropriations bills originating in the house......
That being the case, the Presidential candidates can flap their gums all day long about their budgetary plans, but they mean NOTHING.
Unless the House wants to rein in spending, (which, by the way, has been under Republican control for the last two years with a leadership that has basically done NOTHING), the President can do very little.
There is so much fat in the defense budget it laughable. Get rid of it. We have more Naval combat power than the next several nations behind us combined. An Arleigh Burke class Destroyer alone has more combat and sea control power than some navies.
Yet we're dumping Billions into developing a ship called DDG 1000, which cannot carry most of the weapons currently in use, and for which the major weapons sytems don't even exist on paper.
The same for CVN 21.
And FCS, and Paladin follow on, and many other boondoggles.
Gut them.
I could go on, but it's not the current discussion.
Talk all you want about spend, spend spend, but where do appropriations bills originate?
In the House, which has been under the budget hawk republican control for 2 years, and all they've done is continue to expand the deficit. THe President was in the Oval Office when the US Credit rating took a couple of hits, but who was holding up the budget?
Speaker Boehner.
Who has overseen the first default in the history of the US Postal service?
Chairman Issa, because he won't compromise.
The house leadership has got to go. They're more concerned with playing politics than conducting the business of the country.
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