House to Vote Tuesday on Stopgap Budget to Avoid Government Shutdown

The budget should be put on a website. Let the public see where the money is going. Then the public could email their senators and congressmen with suggestions for cutting the budget.

Seems to me like the Repub's and Dems are playing chicken. Too bad that the main issues prompting the waiting game is which party will blink first. It is the party that feels like they will be blamed.

How about being a statesman rather than a politician???

And on cspan this afternoon the gop is still fighting for corporate welfare for big oil. Go figure.

Congress has proven they can not be trusted with the peoples money, we need Constitutional Amendments for a Balanced Budget and Term Limits of 12 years.

It galls me they are wanting to cut "entitlement" programs, such as SS, MC, and others. Entitlement means you are entitled because you have "paid for it" over a period of years, and both you and your employer was forced to do so, you weren't given a choice. The problem came about when the government began using that money for other things than for the purpose it was intended to fund. How would anyone feel if they made regular monthly deposits to a bank, with their employers contributing an equal amount, and when the time came to draw upon those funds, the bank said "sorry, we used it for other purposes". I'm sick of hearing people speak of "entitlements" as though it was a gift from the government, that one had not paid in for. Had the money been spent only for what it was intended for, there would be tons left over.

Since the current spending levels of this government are unsustainable it is time for both parities and their leadership to come to grasp with the fact that cuts have to be made.. No longer can we have elected officials carving out special interest and trying to save them from the inevitable future of the necessary cuts. Unfortunately there is a wide divide between the Republicans and the Democrats the Republicans want to start doing the needed cuts and the Dems are hell bent on keeping the current spending in force... Since the moderates are on the side of cuts the Dems will lose big time come this next election.

How about a big pay cut for Congress

As far as I'm concerned, except for such services as border security, Social Security, which isn't supposed to be part of the Government anyway, military, FBI, and some others, they can shut it down. Salaries of the President, etc., can be suspended. Many programs and departments such as IRS, Interior, Education, the healthcare/power grab law, and many others should be completely defunded and eliminated permanently.

How about cutting spending on the war..? OR pull out of it..?

And Eric Cantor (shown in this picture) wants to bring back the 2004 tax rate of just 5.25% for overseas profits. It's a job killer, but who profits from this? Their legislation is just wrong. Repealing banking legislation that prohibits predatory lending and credit card loan sharking. Repealing healthcare that holds insurers accountable for increases - Fidelity just reported their costs went down but do you think we'll see a reduction in premiums. No -just more record profts. And cutting the IRS so they can't go after offshore accounts when they were just given the resources to do so in 2009 with over 14,000 coming forward and more just caught the other day in Virginia. Are they really representing you?