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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (23981)	1/4/2010 1:37:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "Oh no. Power freely given to the unelected. This is wrong on it's face. Congress needs to clean up it's act itself by going back to way budgets were created there in the olden days when there were checks and balances against overspending." Ain't no other way you're ever going to see the federal deficit REDUCED.... (And... what in tarnation do you think is a violation of "checks and balances" about the idea of a bipartisan deficit commission to suggest ways to reduce our massive deficits??????? ESPECIALLY since Congress would both CREATE and AUTHORIZE the commission, and only AGREE to give it's recommendations a straightforward up or down vote --- without picking the recommendations apart by amendment....) That is exactly the way that the military base closing commissions have worked in the past (bipartisan, up or down, take-it-or-leave-it vote). 'Cause WITHOUT such a system nothing ever happens (and the Congressmen always seem to sacrifice the general public good for the narrow interests of their own areas.) Sounds like a damn fine idea to me!