If you want to
know how out of touch Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle are
with hardworking Americans just take a look at the latest bipartisan budget
deal.
Every
responsible American family understands the simple facts of balancing their
checkbooks. When times are tough, they cut back to make ends meet. They don’t
max out their credit cards and then apply for more credit cards. They make
sacrifices and work hard. It makes perfect sense that the American people
expect Washington politicians to make the same kind of responsible budget
decisions.
But if you
look at Washington, you have to wonder if our representatives live in a fantasy
world. This week, Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and Democratic Senator Patty Murray
agreed to a budget deal for 2014 that increases federal discretionary spending
to over a trillion dollars from the $967 billion spent in 2013 and obliterates
the modest budget cuts agreed to under sequestration.
Republicans
are trying to spin this deal as a good thing by pointing to new revenue
increases and entitlement changes that will reduce the deficit over the next 10
years. But this is a classic Washington spin game: Increase spending now in
exchange for the promise of deficit reduction later. We have seen this movie
time and again and we all know how it ends. Washington is very good at making
promises and even better at breaking them. ......To Read More....
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