Well... we got our snow!
Of course Mary went to work. Took her 55 minutes to get to work; usually it takes her around 35 minutes.
She left early so as to be able to leave early and get home before dark. Mission accomplished! (The Thruway between Nanuet and Harriman is clear, by the way.)
Me? No rides! (If I'd had a ride... well... then I would have done the ride...)
Enjoyed a little Jameson in my coffee this morning...
Enjoying a little lemoncello in my afternoon cold beverage as I type this...
(*WINK*)
Well... on to today's newsbiting...!
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http://blog.heritage.org/2014/02/11/double-whammy-debt-limit-bill-increases-spending-debt/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=afternoon2_140211
The no-debt-limit extension bill that was introduced after 9 p.m. on Monday night manages to increase not just the debt, but spending as well.
* BOEH-NER! BOEH-NER! BOEH-NER!
This bill fails taxpayers in two important ways:
1) Blank Check Borrowing Authority, misleadingly termed “The Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act,” actually “suspends,” not "extends," the debt limit. (If anything, the act extends no-debt-limit.) Simply put, the act renders the debt limit inoperative. (Another way of saying it is that Congress is handing itself and the Obama administration a blank check to borrow — for an entire year!)
From page 1 of the bill: “Section 3101(b) of title 31 [Public debt limit], United States Code, shall not apply for the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on March 15, 2015.”
(*SHRUG*)
This matters because when Congress fails to limit the debt it effectively abdicates its constitutional power to control borrowing.
(*NOD*)
This means unchecked and unaccountable borrowing, which encourages higher deficit-spending and even greater debt.
* DUH!
A prudent Congress would put the budget on a path to balance in order to avoid a much worse fiscal crisis in the future — deciding to spend less and borrow less going forward. But with this bill, Congress is proposing to spend more and borrow more.
* THE BILL JOHN BOEHNER AND 27 OF BOEHNER'S FOLLOWERS VOTED FOR... GIVING THEIR VOTES TO THE DEMOCRATS SO THAT THE DEMPUBLICAN/REPUBLICRAT PARTY COULD CONTINUE DOING WHAT IT DOES BEST... DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
To get the Congressional Budget Office to score the bill as a small deficit-reduction proposal, Congress is applying a typical Washington gimmick that also last reared its ugly head in the Ryan-Murray budget deal: spend more now for promised savings later.
This blank check debt limit bill is very bad news for taxpayers. With it, Congress would abdicate not only its constitutional power to control the borrowing of the U.S. government, but it also signals a return to the destructive days of bipartisan agreements that increase spending and the debt.
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/02/13/debt-limit-increase-national-debt-piling-on/
Thanks to Congress, the U.S. now doesn’t have a debt limit for the next year.
“President Obama, after less than five years in office, has already increased the debt limit by more than any other president in U.S. history, including President George W. Bush over eight years in office,” report Romina Boccia and Michael Sargent, authors of the newly updated Federal Budget in Pictures.
For the next year, now that Congress has given Obama a blank check, we’ll be following the borrowing and the spending and all the debt Washington is piling on Americans. The national debt, at $17.3 trillion, already exceeds $140,000 per household. Sargent and Boccia, the Grover M. Hermann Fellow, teamed up with Heritage’s Senior Data Graphics Editor John Fleming to bring us 20 charts that will convince you the country’s in trouble.
There are some scary fiscal times ahead:
Imagine all of America and all of the taxes people pay to the federal government every year. Do you have an overwhelming idea in your mind? Just 16 years from now, ALL of that money will pay for just two things: entitlement programs and interest on the debt.
All of it.
The entitlement programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and ObamaCare's new entitlements.
* SEE THE CHARTS: http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/federal-budget-deficits
http://news.yahoo.com/report-gov-39-t-success-immigration-court-drops-195945280--politics.html;_ylt=Am48iWuZGokIi6HURW1GtsbQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBsMGkyN3JqBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM5BHNlYwNzcg--
Nearly half of immigrants facing deportation are now winning their cases before an immigration judge, their highest success rate in more than 20 years, according to a new analysis of court data published Thursday.
The U.S. government has been losing more deportation cases each year since 2009, according to the Transaction Records Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which collects and studies federal prosecution records.
* SINCE... 2009...
* NOW IMAGINE THAT!
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