{"id":4340,"date":"2012-01-24T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:32:17","slug":"video-1000-days-without-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/video-1000-days-without-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 1,000 Days Without a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve reached something of grim milestone&#8230; It has now been 1,000 days since federal government has had an actual budget:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QG0stsk3Ljs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say it any better than <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/24\/video-1000-days-without-a-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Korbe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No matter what measure you use, government spending has increased since 1965. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budgetchartbook\/total-government-spending\">Total government spending<\/a> has more than doubled. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budgetchartbook\/federal-spending-per-household\">Federal spending per household<\/a> has increased from\u00a0$11,431 in 1965 to $29,401 in 2010, for an increase of nearly 162 percent. That would all be fine if revenues had kept pace \u2014 if, in the same time period, the United States hadn\u2019t also acquired more than $15 trillion in debt.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Obama administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budgetchartbook\/budget-create-deficits#\">the deficit and debt<\/a>\u00a0has only increased \u2014 and, to make matters worse, for <em>all three years<\/em> of Barack Obama\u2019s presidency, the federal government has indulged in high levels of spending <em>without an official budget<\/em>. What could possibly be the result of such directionless spending <em>other than <\/em>unprecedented deficits and increased debt?<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat-controlled Senate is directly to blame for the lack of a budget. Even when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, the Congress didn\u2019t bother to pass a plan. Now that Republicans control the House, the House has passed a comprehensive budget plan \u2014 but the Senate has still done nothing. The Senate is the true do-nothing chamber, but the president will almost assuredly blame the House as the inactive chamber.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m honestly at loss for words here, as Ms. Korbe points out Pres. Obama and Senate Democrats will undoubtedly try to blame House Republicans for the lack of a budget, but the reality is they did their job and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/15\/house-passes-2012-budget-plan\/?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">passed a comprehensive budget plan last April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Harry Reid, and Senate Democrats who have failed to fulfill one of their most basic responsibilities and it&#8217;s they who should be held to account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve reached something of grim milestone&#8230; It has now been 1,000 days since federal government has had an actual budget: I can&#8217;t say it any better than Tina Korbe: No matter what measure you use, government spending has increased since 1965. Total government spending has more than doubled. Federal spending per household has increased from\u00a0$11,431 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,7],"tags":[57,59,1233,161,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-4340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-democrats","10":"tag-federal-budget","11":"tag-harry-reid","12":"tag-senate","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-180","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2196,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/barack-obama-us-long-term-debt-load-unsustainable\/","url_meta":{"origin":4340,"position":0},"title":"Barack Obama: U.S. Long-Term Debt Load &#8216;Unsustainable&#8217;","author":"Jeff","date":"May 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From Bloomberg News: May 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending \u201cunsustainable,\u201d warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries. \u201cWe can\u2019t keep on just borrowing from China,\u201d Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4125,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/thoughts-on-the-debt-limit-debate\/","url_meta":{"origin":4340,"position":1},"title":"Thoughts on the Debt Limit Debate &#8212; Updated","author":"Jeff","date":"August 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"What we\u2019ve seeing playing out in Washington during the debt limit debate is in many ways akin to an addict facing an intervention. Washington\u2019s policy makers, both Democrats and Republicans, are hopelessly addicted to spending and they don\u2019t want to admit it or to change their behavior. As a result\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1856,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/paul-ryan-the-gops-alternative-budget\/","url_meta":{"origin":4340,"position":2},"title":"Paul Ryan: The GOP&#8217;s Alternative Budget","author":"Jeff","date":"April 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Ryan the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee lays out the GOP's alternative budget proposal in an Op Ed in Today's Wall Street Journal: Here's an outline of what we propose: - Deficits\/Debt. The Republican budget achieves lower deficits than the Democratic plan in every year, and by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4292,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/hous-gop-will-vote-on-balanced-budget-amendment-that-permits-unlimited-federal-spending\/","url_meta":{"origin":4340,"position":3},"title":"Hous GOP Will Vote on Balanced Budget Amendment That Permits Unlimited Federal Spending","author":"Jeff","date":"November 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"House Republicans expect begin debate on a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution as early as today. The measure of the, H.J. Res 2, which is part of the debt-ceiling deal Democrats agreed to in August is watered down political cop-out on the part of the Republican leadership. Apparently House Speaker\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4158,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/the-fallacy-of-the-101-mix-of-spending-cuts-and-tax-hikes-question\/","url_meta":{"origin":4340,"position":4},"title":"The fallacy of the 10:1 Mix of Spending Cuts and Tax Hikes Question","author":"Jeff","date":"August 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I suspect most of you have seen or heard about this exchange during the Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa last Thursday night: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ASQNITVweLo&feature=player_embedded It was a bullshit question, first of all unless those spending cuts are immediate they'll never materialize... particularly when the baseline for negotiations is that the taxes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ASQNITVweLo\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3627,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/hey-big-spender-pelosi-led-congress-has-added-5-trillion-to-debt-since-2007\/","url_meta":{"origin":4340,"position":5},"title":"Hey Big Spender: Pelosi Led Congress Has Added $5 Trillion to Debt Since 2007","author":"Jeff","date":"October 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"From CNSNews.com: When Rep. 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