Weekly Address: Congress Should Do its Job and Pass a Serious Budget
Source: White House
In this week's address, the President emphasized that we need to do everything we can to strengthen economic growth and job creation. This week, despite the fact that more than half of Republicans in Congress voted to shut down the government for the second time in two years, Congress managed to pass a last-minute bill to keep the government open for another ten weeks. That means that in December, we could face yet another Republican threat to shut down the government. The President emphasized that Congress needs to stop kicking the can down the road and do its job. He stressed that Republicans and Democrats need to work together to pass a budget that fully funds the government and reverses the harmful sequestration cuts, and vowed that he would not sign another shortsighted spending bill like the one Congress sent him this past week.
Read more: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/03/weekly-address-congress-should-do-its-job-and-pass-serious-budget
Yesterday, we learned that our businesses created another 118,000 new jobs in September. That makes 67 straight months of job creation, and 13.2 million new jobs in all.
But we would be doing even better if we didn’t have to keep dealing with crises in Congress every few months. And especially at a time when the global economy is softening, our own growth could slow if Congress doesn’t do away with harmful austerity measures.
Now, on Wednesday, more than half of Republicans in Congress voted to shut down the government for the second time in two years. Fortunately, there were enough votes in both parties to pass a last-minute bill to keep the government open for another ten weeks. Unfortunately, that gimmick only sets up another shutdown threat two weeks before Christmas.
Look, that’s not the way America should operate. It just kicks the can down the road without solving any problems or doing any long-term planning for the future. And that’s why I will not sign another shortsighted, short-term spending bill like the one Congress sent me this week.
Here’s why. A few years ago, both parties agreed to put in place harmful, automatic cuts that make no distinction between spending we don’t need and spending we do. Those cuts have actually kept our economy from growing faster. Even worse, they’re actually undermining the middle class.
Here’s one example. If we don’t undo these mindless cuts, then next year, we’ll be funding our kids’ education at the same levels per pupil we did in the year 2000. Compared to my budget, that would be like cutting federal funding for 4,500 schools, 17,500 teachers and aides, 1.9 million students.
That’s not good for our kids or our economy. It’s a prescription for American decline. And it shouldn’t happen. We should invest in things like education today, or we’ll pay the price tomorrow.
Congress should do its job, stop kicking the can down the road, and pass a serious budget rather than flirt with another shutdown. A serious budget is one that keeps America strong through our military, our law enforcement; that keeps America generous through caring for our veterans and our seniors; that keeps America competitive by educating our kids and our workers.
That’s what I want to work with serious people in both parties to achieve. Because that’s how we’ll build on the progress of 13 million new jobs, and help the middle class get ahead.
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AGAIN, I SAY FAT CHANCE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
All they, republicans want to do, is attack social programs and let people die and be homeless and have children go hungry.
Everyone of them make $174,000 a year
Speaker and and Majority Leader and Minority make $225,000 a year
Republicans House not doing anything:
244 x $174,000 = $42,456,000 a year republicans
3 x $225,000 =$675,000 a year speaker and majority and whip
Total for one year
$43,131,000.00 dollars
Republicans Senate not doing anything:
53 x $174,000 = $9,222,000 a year
2 x $225,000 = $450,000 a year
Total for one year
$9,672,000.00 dollars per year
Combined expenditure for both house controlled by republicans
$52,803,000.00 per year
So folks what have you gotten for over 52 million a year
Lets see attack Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
Select committee wasting over 5 million on Benghazi for over 515 days
Cut funding for AMTRAK
CUT funding for 9/11 rescue workers
Cut funding for National Conservation for water and land
No unemployment benefits for those that need it
No jobs bills
Voted and passed the fast track authority for TPP------------with democrat help
Gave scared land from the Navajo to some mining and development conglomerate
Cut funding for the National Parks
Cut funding for Forest service and fire fighting
Still trying to gut the ACA
Trying to defund and shut down Planned Parenthood Medicaid Health
Cut funding for Education
Cut funding for food programs
Gun Legislation
The list goes on and on, and this is what we get for paying extremists republicans, because that's what they are extremists, over 52 million dollars a year for the last 6 years to spread hate and fear
52 million a year x 6 years =$316,818.000. 00
FAT CHANCE
Honk---------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
Vote !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did get to listen to it this morning on the radio and hope he keeps pounding this over an over. With Boehner going at the end of the month, I expect the GOP will be emboldened to go for broke despite the fact that there's a Presidential election coming up next year. The next GOP debate is being hosted by CNBC and it will be interesting to see if any of the moderators even bring the subject up to put them on record for being determined to shut the government down in order to defund an organization that doesn't get any funding whatsoever for what the anti-choicers rail against.
