So recently I’ve been reading a few political blogs, I’ve mostly been keeping up about the whole budget crisis. So we all know that the government has not adopted a budget yet. Well did you know that during the debt limit meeting between the President and Congressional leaders that took place at 4 PM ET on July 13th, Senator Mitch McConnell proposed a solution to our spending problems? This is true. It seems, however, that the meeting has upset the very people who support Sen. McConnell. The tea party group have dubbed McConnell’s new plan the “Great Sellout of 2011”.
In a recent blog complaints were noted about Sen. Mitch McConnell's new budget plan that is to keep a cap on the excess spending problems the government has been having. His new plan is to eliminate "Congress’ authority and responsibility for the federal budget" leaving the people in the fog about whether or not the budget changes are really happening. Then the plan is to cut on our defenses "while Obamacare and stimulus projects continued" to be completely provided for.
The blog quotes another source called The Hill that says that the new budget plan “would benefit [the] Republicans politically by placing the responsibility for raising the debt limit almost entirely with Obama.” It goes on to say how it would allow the Republicans “in both chambers to vote en masse against it without causing a national economic catastrophe.”
However, it could also not be so good for the Senate Democrats for it may force them to support “several hikes to the debt ceiling ahead of an election in which they must defend 23 seats”.
Frankly I must say I disagree with the tea party group. I think the new budget proposal may work in favor of the people. It would grant more money to the Obamacare plan and other health plans and other stimulus projects that people in our country rely on to live off of.
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