The Republicans in the House of Representatives swore they'd cut spending and taxes after 2010 elections.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

How'd they do??? . . . .  THEY SUCK!!!

Spending Bills Passed by GOP House Increased Debt $1T in 10 Months

By Terence P. Jeffrey

January 11, 2012

    

House Speaker John Boehner meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House on Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

(CNSNews.com) - Federal spending bills approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have increased the national debt by more than $1 trillion dollars in just 10 months.

Republicans won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2010 elections and took control of the House on Jan. 5, 2011, when the chamber convened and elected Rep. John Boehner (R.-Ohio) as speaker.

But the Republican-controlled House did not gain a veto power over federal spending until March 4, 2011. That was the expiration date of the continuing resolution (CR) that the lame-duck Democrat-controlled Congress approved in December 2010. After March 4, federal spending has been approved by legislation that needed to be approved in the Republican-controlled House.

On March 1, 2011, the Republican-controlled House passed its first CR to fund the government after March 4. Since then, it has approved a series of CRs to keep the government funded. The Republican House approved its latest CR on December 16. It will keep the government funded until the end of fiscal 2012 on Sept. 30.

Eighty-six House Republicans went against their party leaders and voted against the Dec. 16 CR, which actually garnered more votes from House Democrats (149) than House Republicans (147).

When the Republican-controlled House approved its first CR on March 4, 2011, the national debt was 14,182,627,184,881.03, according to the U.S. Treasury. As of the close of business on Jan. 9, 2012, the national debt was 15,236,506,139,986.86.

That means the debt increased by $1.05 trillion over the past ten months.

That equals approximately $8,964 for each of the 117,572,000 American households estimated by the Census Bureau.

At the current rate, the Republican-controlled House is agreeing to allow the U.S. Treasury to borrow approximately an additional $896 per month American household per month.

Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution says: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." Article 1, Section 7 says that every bill “shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate … before it become a Law.”

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[Edie Boudreau]

 

We Must Join Together With the Awakened Giant

 

 I am a patriotic American—a 76-yr.-old woman who worked 50 years to avoid Government aid or take-over. I earned my living for >30 years as a writer/editor/producer in all the mediums, and I am still working as an investigative reporter and activist in trying to save our country's laws and Constitution.  From the first time I became a conservative activist, I have been begging for Term Limits laws for every politician--no more than 8 yrs. in any office--locally or nationally.  Then no pensions, special perks, or power--and no lobbyist jobs for 8 more years.

All citizens have the right to demonstrate and protest—not just the liberal left who are organized by the Obama administration, even though they are the ones who claim that the Republicans are being organized and are actually “astro-turf.” During the first week of September 2009, they were sending out 100s of buses across the country full of ACORN and SEIU members who they had trained to intimidate, protest loudly enough to drown out dissenters, and take over Town Hall meetings.

The people who the liberal-left claimed as being “manufactured by the far-right,” are people of all political parties or even none at all, who have been protesting since the beginning of the 2008 campaign. They are American citizens who are activists for the first times in their lives because they don't want any more bail-outs, stimulus funds, bloated budgets and pork projects.  No unconstitutional Bills or appointments.  No going around Congress to push forward Obama's agenda. If the average citizens are being organized, they are doing it themselves through patriotic web sites and community meetings.

Now Obama and his gang of Czars and ultra-left Congress are still trying to ram through the Cap and Tax bill, the union Card Check, and already rammed through the nationalized Health Care Reform, no matter how much more they raise our debt. They are also trying to take control of communications such as radio and the Internet to silence the voices of their dissenters. At the same time, they are doing their best to make our Constitution irrelevant.

We need to stop any more spending and lower our debt. We need to lower taxes on small businesses so they can start hiring workers again and thus rebuild our capitalist marketplace. We need to stop all the give-away programs to those too lazy to work, and we need to change welfare to workfare, so that people will be motivated enough to attend government classes to learn skills that will help them earn more and feel like a worthwhile, productive citizen.

This is why people attending these Town Hall meetings are sometimes loud and raucous, because their representatives are lying to their faces when in person, and are not returning their calls, faxes and emails. They think they live in a bubble and only have to answer to their constituents and the special interests that helped them get elected. However, they have now awakened the sleeping giant, and representatives of that giant will be in Washington, D.C. soon.  We have the voting records