House Approves Spending Cuts in Largely Symbolic Vote

To solve the financial crisis all governmental programs will, (by the same percentage), face budget cuts. In doing so, the political stalemate will be broken. Until than when the different parties focus on one program or another, the political stalemate will go on at the continued financial and economical expenditure of the American taxpayer. I.e. if more Governmental programs are added, the amount of money spent for all Governmental programs decreases. The only realistic way that more finances can be used for new or continued Governmental programs is to encourage the private sectors growth. Until than the country faces going broke.

Why would what needs done be a symbolic vote. Is it symbolic to liberals who want to spend the country into a bankrupt country like europian countries that they are trying to mirror. It is time for democrats to do what is best for the country not for a socialist agenda.

What the president need to do is to put his deficit reduction into place and reduce the deficit by half of last year budget whether cutting the budget of defence or social programs like medicare and medicaid and sacial services that require the beginning of anticorruption and antiwaste office to eliminate waste and those who doesn't deserve to have these programs.

So let me get this straight. If in 2007 the Dems had voted to give this kind of power to any one Congressman all of my Constitutionaal friends would have been okay with that? So what has changed? We still need huge spending cuts (preferable) or major tax increases (less preferable) so that we end borrow and spend policies endorsed by both parties. I am tired of redistributing wealth from our future because we won't pay our bills.

It is symbolic because not enough Democratic Senators got the memo from November
otherwise we wouldn't have to go through this charade.

If there is ever to be any semblance of fiscal sanity in our country we need to get out of the foreign war business....our foreign policy is bankrupting us. All this noise about cutting the deficit wouldn't be an issue if Bush and Cheney hadn't conned us into invading Iraq with trumped up intelligence justification. It's time for Iraq, Afghanistan, et al, to stand up on their own and decide what is right for their country...not the US taxpayers who are footing the bill. All this handwringing about what is going to get cut to achieve the $100 billion spending cut is coming to be more than the GOP ever hoped. The president will be speaking his State of the Union message shortly, so lets see what the GOP has to say after he speaks.

This new congress wants to cut medicare homecare. It has been proven homecare helps keep the elderly out of the hospital and out of the the nursing home which is way more expensive than homecare. There will be a lot of people out of a job if this cut is passed including mine which I have been at for 14 yrs, will ruin my retirement and my 401K !! Guess I would just have to file unemployment !! It is a vicious cycle !! Please pray for our country !!

After staunchly supporting the unread, misunderstood and 2300 page mumbo-jumbo of a health care reform act Steny Hoyer has the nerve to call a spending cut and limitation "vague" Come on Steny just roll over and let Nancy Pelosi scratch your belly.

It's an absolute certainty that only the taxpayers will be harmed by spending limits. The bulk of the spending will go to the military and foreign business concerns. Always has with the GOP.

Dems got in trouble for not working on JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. Looks like Repubs are gonna do the same thing!