Super Committee

[armedandsafe]

Liberals' idea of spending reductions, savings and limited government.

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"It turns out that a committee created to reduce the deficit is instead going to increase it. As The Hill reported: 'Democrats on the supercommittee have proposed that the savings from the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan be used to pay for a new stimulus package, according to a summary of the $2.3 trillion plan obtained by The Hill.' ... [I]n what sense are these 'savings'? The Iraq War is ended -- or, at any rate, 'ended,' at least as far as U.S. participation in it is concerned. How then can congressional accountants claim to be able to measure 'savings' in 2021 from a war that ended a decade earlier? And why stop there? Why not estimate around $2 trillion in savings by 2031? ... Come to think of it, didn't the Second World War end in 1945? Could we have the CBO score the estimated two-thirds of a century of 'budget savings' we've saved since ending that war? We could use the money to fund free master's degrees in Complacency and Self-Esteem Studies for everyone, and that would totally stimulate the economy. The Spanish-American War ended 103 years ago, so imagine how much cash has already piled up! ... [T]he [Obama] administration then proposed a 15-cent tax on Christmas trees in order to fund a federal promotional campaign to promote the sale of Christmas trees. Possibly Commerce Department research showed that there's a dramatic fall-off in the sale of 'holiday trees' round about December 26 every year, and Obama figured a little stimulus surely couldn't hurt. He was forced to rescind the proposal, presumably after an ACLU chum pointed out that settling the Bureau of Christmas Tree Promotion lawsuit would wipe out all the budget savings from the French and Indian Wars." --columnist Mark Steyn

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[raven818]

The hard working Super Committee, as heard on Fox this morning, haven't had a sit-down meeting for the past 14 days??????