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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (45683)9/7/2010 8:53:18 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: "If you do trust those decisions, than there isn't any need for a balanced budget amendment in the first place."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'Trust' WHAT 'decisions?

(What an utterly idiotic comment, that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the NEED for a firm legal requirement in our constitution for balanced federal budgets.)

Rather, you seem to be saying that *after* a constitutional mandate is in-place REQUIRING BALANCED BUDGETS that whatever policy choices and compromises the public and the politicians may then choose to make to REACH BUDGET BALANCES somehow, someway, *negates* the constitutional requirement itself.

What a bunch of illogical gobblty-gook.

ONE comes FIRST, (the mandate), NEXT comes the implementation (how we choose to arrive at budget balances).

The two things are very much not the same. <GGG>
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