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N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
Under Article V of the Constitution, legislatures in 34 states must pass resolutions to call for a convention for proposing amendments. It takes 38 states to ratify a constitutional amendment.
BISMARCK – North Dakota has joined 26 other states in passing a resolution calling for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, though some Republican lawmakers feel it doesn’t go far enough to rein in Congress and other branches of the federal government.The state Senate passed a resolution Tuesday asking Congress to call a convention for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget.“If we want fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C., it has to come from the states. We have to be bold in our approach to them,” said Sen. Dick Dever, R-Bismarck, a sponsor of the resolution
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Re: N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
So, why doesn't this republican congress pass one?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
Goose wrote:
So, why doesn't this republican congress pass one?
THAT ain't gonna' happen as they say ! 
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Re: N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
So, why doesn't this republican congress pass one?
THAT ain't gonna' happen as they say !
Oh, it's gonna happen.
Now excuse me while I get back to my unicorn ranch.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
Just received my weekly e-mail update from Scott Perry, my representative in the house. He congratulates himself and his colleagues for passing a balanced budget that gets us out of debt in 10 years. Then he chides Obama for presenting a budget busting tax & spend budget.
This is the problem: without any kind of cooperation, collaboration, or compromise, how can a reasonable budget (or any legislation for that matter) be rationally discussed and passed that will benefit the majority of the nation's citizens? It requires give and take, not rabid attacks on conflicting points of view, or stubborn defense at all cost of the official party line. From my perspective, Perry does not understand this process, but reduces himself to a self serving minion of his party and benefactors. Plus, he seems unable to understand the constitutional responsibilities assigned to each branch of the federal government.
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Re: N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
The whole budget thing seems a bit screwy to me. For example, we ran a war "off budget" for several years and then when a new guy takes office, he puts the war in the budget and gets zinged for increasing the national debt. I don't get it. One tribe is labeled 'tax and spend' by the tribe that operates with a 'borrow and spend' philosophy.
In the end, isn't 'borrow and spend' actually more expensive?
As far as a balanced budget amendment, I'm figuring there are gagillion ways to dance around that one even if one were to be passed, but I say, "Go ahead, if it would make you feel better." Seems like with a Republican congress, this would be the time to do it.
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Re: N.D. becomes 27th state calling for federal balanced budget amendment
Just received my weekly e-mail update from Scott Perry, my representative in the house. He congratulates himself and his colleagues for passing a balanced budget that gets us out of debt in 10 years. Then he chides Obama for presenting a budget busting tax & spend budget.
This is the problem: without any kind of cooperation, collaboration, or compromise, how can a reasonable budget (or any legislation for that matter) be rationally discussed and passed that will benefit the majority of the nation's citizens? It requires give and take, not rabid attacks on conflicting points of view, or stubborn defense at all cost of the official party line. From my perspective, Perry does not understand this process, but reduces himself to a self serving minion of his party and benefactors. Plus, he seems unable to understand the constitutional responsibilities assigned to each branch of the federal government.
Wait till the "gray panthers" (ie-us old farts) get a whiff of what is in store for them health care wise with some of the cuts and there might not be one person left who voted for this thing !
Also, how will the R-tribe keep their war machine and its defense spending going on a balanced budget ? (That deserved a double since the new proposed budget had I believe NO cuts in military spending)
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"Balanced budget" seems to increasingly be Republican code for cutting out people from the people's money.
I've seen a chart that asked a large number of the most wealthiest people what their overall concerns were by order of importance. #1 was the budget and deficit. Jobs and economy was low on the list.
Then I saw a chart that asked the same thing of average people, and budget and deficit was lower on the list, and jobs and economy were #1.
Then I saw a chart that ranked concerns of Republicans in office, and it matched up exactly with the chart of the wealthiest and their order of importance.
Coincidence?
(I was trying to find the charts, but I can't remember exactly where on the net that I found them. When I find them, I'll post them.)