Showing posts with label Balanced Budget Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balanced Budget Amendment. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Conservative Party Could Have Helped “Super Committee”

Although the Conservative Party congratulated the GOP and the Tea Party for giving Obama and the Democrats a shellacking last November, we’re finding little to cheer about this November.  The Debt Ceiling fiasco was… well... a fiasco and Congress still has not enacted a budget in nearly 1,000 days.
 
The Super Committee is proof positive of only one thing: It proves the Republi-Dem Congress and the Administration have failed to govern – again.  They shifted the burden and responsibility of making the needed tough fiscal decisions to this Committee.  The President has failed to lead and the Republi-Dem congress is as inept, hamstrung and wracked with fear as ever. The consequences of this Committee’s failure to reach an agreement will be dire, especially on our Defense readiness.  And trying to insert a surreptitious farm subsidy bill into this new arrangement exemplifies “business as usual” rather than true fiscal reform.
 
Since Congress failed - again, CP-USA offers a Cost-Cutting Road Map. While adopting these solutions will not cure all our fiscal problems immediately, they will staunch the bleeding, slow the mounting debt and get Congress moving in the right direction.  The GOP has no choice but to finally do what it has promised Americans for the past 25 years.  They have this one, last and final chance.  If they fail – again – the GOP will confirm that it’s finished as a viable party.
 
 
STEP 1 of 13 - STOP BASE LINE BUDGETING: This pernicious accounting gimmick requires budgets to automatically increase by 10% every year. The net effect is that even if Congress “cuts” a program by 4%, for example, actual spending still increases by 6%. The “cut” is an illusion while the increase is real. It will be impossible to make meaningful budget reforms until this institutional deception is expunged.
 
 
Source: e-letter from CP-USA (Conservative Party)

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Rand Paul Rocks Washington

Dear Patriot,

Rand Paul is taking the fight to the statists and rocking the Washington establishment.

During a Senate Energy Committee hearing last Thursday, Senator Paul laid into an Energy Department bureaucrat over the federal government's seemingly insatiable appetite for controlling our lives.

After you watch the video (guaranteed to make your day), come back to read the “not going to back down” letter Rand and seven other senators sent to Harry Reid that same day.


This isn't the first time Senator Paul has given voice to the American people's frustrations with out of control government.

Whether it's fighting for $500 billion in cuts to runaway spending, pushing a legitimate Balanced Budget Amendment, or preventing the establishment from ramming through its so-called “Patriot” Act, Rand Paul has followed his father's lead by clearly speaking his mind and championing freedom ever since he came to Washington.

Click here to read his letter to Harry Reid, and, if you can, please also chip in $10 to help Campaign for Liberty recruit more people into the movement to get the establishment out of our lives.

Only your continued support allows us to push back against an ever-growing, out of control state.

We know the federal government isn't going to let up.  So, together, let's remind President Obama and Congress that C4L will never surrender the fight.


In Liberty,

John Tate
President

P.S. Statists are planning new ways to extend their power over us even as I write this note. After you read Senator Rand Paul’s letter to Harry Reid, please chip in $10 today so C4L can not only defeat the establishment’s plans but stay on the offensive and take back our country.