House GOP group proposes deep spending cuts over next decade

According to the Washington Post:

Members of the conservative Republican Study Committee said the GOP must keep its campaign pledge to immediately slice at least $100 billion from non-defense programs, an effort that would require lawmakers to reduce funding for most federal agencies by a third over the next seven months. And the group called for even deeper cuts over the next decade to return non-defense spending to 2006 levels.

“One hundred billion dollars is the number the American people heard last fall. And, frankly, when you look at it in the context that there’s a $14 trillion debt, it seems to me we should be able to find $100 billion,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), chairman of the study committee, a group of economic and social conservatives whose ranks have swelled since the GOP won back control of the House in the November midterm elections.

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Those on the left would have no standards if it weren’t for their double standards

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Jon Stewart analyzes the latest Palindrome.

Strange, he sees the same things I do. The slightest criticism becomes persecution.   UFB.  He didn’t even call and ask my opinion, this time.

Palin threw down the gauntlet by sayings ‘for those on the left would have no standards if it weren’t for their double standards.’  I sure hope she isn’t counting on MY vote, since I bet she includes people like me in her ‘left.’  So when asked why I don’t care for her, I will just go with that: 

Where is he wrong in his assessment?  It pretty much comes from the Caribou’s mouth in this one. 

The Torch has been passed….50 years ago today

JFK was inaugurated 50 years ago today.  1/20/61

 

The torch has been passed, the prelude to Cuba, and ask not what your country can do for you, are all included. Listening this morning, I was reminded just how much this family has given. They could have never lifted a finger. Yet some of them gave all.

I sincerely hope everyone will take the time to listen.  I  had not heard the entire speech as an adult.  Isn’t hindsight wonderful?

That speech is history.  Kennedy was prophetic in many ways.