House Passes Extensions, But Senate Will Wait Until After Recess
The House today passed a one-year extension of various tax breaks as well as expanded unemployment benefits until November on a 215-204 vote. In a separate 245-171 vote it approved a patch to the Medicare “doc fix” through 2011. However, the Senate adjourned without considering the legislation, meaning that the unemployment benefits, doc fix and COBRA subsidies will expire while Congress is in recess. Marking the second time this year Congress has left town without extending these provisions.
Once again it was disagreement over paying for the initiatives that was at the heart of the inability to act. Leaders initially tried to enact more costly, longer term extensions, but were rebuffed by lawmakers nervous about the massive costs. As it is, the bills passed by the House today will add some $54 billion to the deficit.
In a release today CRFB expressed concern about the unwillingness to explore offsets. If Congress is really serious about helping workers and promoting economic growth, it will act responsibly and find ways to finance these programs.
You Miss The Point
A severe lack of common sense and restraint within the continuously expanding Federal and State Governments is the problem.
Their unceasing expansion of new Departments and Agencies with thousands of more Government Employees all getting the Pensions, Health Care and other costly benefits must be the first issue to address if this country has any hope of surviving.
They do not know the value of a dollar nor have they any respect of how hard that we the taxpayers work for our earnings.
Government has reached the point where spending hundreds of millions of dollars did not concern them, then it was hundreds of Billions and now it's tens of Trillions.
Propose every budget you wish, but until we get the Federal and State Governments back under control of the people our future is dubious at best.
Any and all plans for addtional spending must first be frozen. From there we need to take a serious look at all Federal Departments, Agencies and Programs and cut the fat while doing the same thing at the State level.
Then we need to figure out how Americans can learn once again to take care of themselves and to stop allowing the government to be our savior because in the end this will prove to be disaster for every American as history has proven throughout the world.
How many times must we repeat history before we learn and when we will focus on the main problem, government, before it is too late?
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