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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...budget_process
Here's a pretty understandable description of the process, that focuses mostly on the budget resolution. You were right about the "resolution" being passed by Congress pre-appropriation bills but it's not a law because the President doesn't sign it (it only binds Congress). The appropriation bills make up the legal federal budget.
If you think about how big this budget is, you'd have to divide it up to committees as a preprocess to the overall process of approving a budget. Its difficult for me to say that the Gov't is actually doing something that makes sense, but that makes sense to me.
And what I was saying earlier, the Dems didn't do 1 single 'resolution' from any committee.
I think normally when they do a cr, there are several parts of the budget 'resolved' from committee making it a clearer picture of where the budget is at, or parts of it. This year there wasn't a single resolution.
http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/...eams/18679.pdf
Page 7 and 8 show how many appropriation bills have been passed pre-CR, within the CR, or not at all.
It looks like most of the time, if there is a CR, there are very few if any appropriations passed prior to it or within it. Still looking like this FY wasn't really abnormal.
It's been educational nailing down what I only knew generally before though. I like this forum the most when that happens.
Yeah, I already knew all that. j/k
That only helps WTFChris ignore your posts as lies.
I specifically chose the word eviscerate to give a vivid description of what it would look like if you got what you want. You said your ideal or goal was government shrunk by a third. I believe you also said "cuts, deep cuts." Well, you don't get there with haircuts, you get there with amputations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
^ Oh.
Well, as you pointed out, HUGE cuts cannot happen overnight.
But we have to make huge cuts, over time, in Medicare, some in SS and the military. Like I said, bring our troops home from Germany. We have more troops in Germany than in Iraq. Let old Europe fend for itself.
I pasted this link in the Stossell thread too.
http://www.creators.com/opinion/john...he-budget.html
^State taxes increase by 4X in that example, and fed ones stay the same just to not increase the deficit. You now have to raise taxes to pay it off (not to mention all the folks who are now out of a job won't be paying taxes)