Congress Just Passed a $150 Billion Spending Package Without Any Consideration for Looming Trillion-

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In a sane world, the news that America will run a trillion-dollar deficit in the next fiscal year would cause at least enough of a stir in Congress to make lawmakers at least a little nervous about their budget votes.
After all, it was support for runaway spending and the specter of a trillion-dollar deficit that cost lawmakers on both sides of the aisle their congressional seats during the conservative Tea Party uprising less than a decade ago. Now that the Congressional Budget Office says we are on course for a return to trillion-dollar deficits—and not during an economic downturn, but at the peak of the business cycle—it would seem appropriate for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to be wary about their role in pushing the country across that symbolic threshold.
Instead, it's quite the opposite. Congress just passed a $150 billion spending bill—the first of three to be considered in the coming days—with bipartisan support and without significant opposition from the leadership of either party. The bill passed 377-20 in the House on Thursday afternoon, after clearing the Senate with a 92-5 vote on Wednesday.....

https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/13/congress-just-passed-a-150-spending-pack

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But is this “good” spending or “bad?”

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But is this “good” spending or “bad?”

LOL!

It's gonna be beyond ugly when nature's law of economics reasserts itself once all the artificial thrust runs out of fuel and this airship of fools comes crashing to earth at terminal velocity.

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But is this “good” spending or “bad?”

When you are as deep in debt as we are, what qualifies as good spending?

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When you are as deep in debt as we are, what qualifies as good spending?

Spending that I like, of course. 

But in all seriousness, that is why there’s no will to cut spending. The energy is spent instead fighting over “good” spending verses “ bad.” And there’s no shortage of people who will raise holy hell when “their” spending program faces cuts. So, being humans, Congressmen and women just take the path of least resistance and continue spending, borrowing, and encouraging more printing

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A Democracy/Republic cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It will only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits with other people's money, the result which eventually collapses society, because the loose fiscal policy ensuing destroys economic wealth and property via debt, which as Democracies in the past have shown, is always followed by a dictatorship. 

Paraphrased from DeToqueville.

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The bill passed 377-20 in the House on Thursday afternoon, after clearing the Senate with a 92-5 vote on Wednesday.

There ain't dimes worth of difference between the 2 parties.

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Now Trump can veto it if he wants?
The last one had pay increases for our food stamp Military.

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There ain't dimes worth of difference between the 2 parties.

Nope. Not a cent worth of difference.

3 Trillion spent in February and March.

800 Billion last month (supposedly for more military)

150 Billion spendthrift package now.

Republicans and Democrats alike are spending us into complete oblivion.