More Spending

The Senate right now is considering a bill that would be a combination of tax cuts and spending increases. Yes - thats right, cutting taxes, and increasing spending.

This includes the bullshit "doc fix" of fucking with Medicare payments again so that "Obamacare" did not obviously cost the few trillion over the next ten years it is going to cost in reality - how the hell did we pass that Obamination?

Anyway, our fearless leaders have us covered:

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said that he will support an amendment to give a health insurance premium subsidy for unemployed workers under the COBRA program, a provision that was removed from the final version of the House bill because of its cost.

Reid has said he hopes the Senate can approve the package soon. "We have to wind this down as quickly as we can," Reid said Tuesday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that Republicans are worried about the deficit-increasing impact of the overall package.

"There is a growing feeling ... that these kind of packages ought to be paid for," McConnell said.

It is important, McConnell said, to "figure out a way to pay for this bill."

Senate Democratic leaders have made two main changes to the bill from its House iteration. The Senate bill would increase the deficit by $78 billion over a decade.

One of the changes the Senate made to the House-passed bill increased Medicaid assistance to state governments by about $24 billion.

The package has grown from the $113 billion that was approved by the House several weeks ago to a Senate package that now costs $140 billion."


So the best we have is that the Republicans have a "growing feeling" that they should find ways to actually pay for the spending. Are you serious? That's it?

The latest report is that by 2015 America's national debt will reach $19.6 trillion. Which will be 102% of GDP. The democrats are just passing shit with no idea how the hell we are going to pay for it, and the Republicans have a goddamn "feeling" that something is not quite right.


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