While the deficit is skyrocketing and the country is up to its collective eyebrows in debt, Democrats are tackling the problem with . . . more spending. House Democrats have passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill to add to all the other spending they have made this year. As AP reports:
Democrats are muscling through a deficit-swelling spending bill, giving domestic programs their third major boost this year and awarding lawmakers with more than 5,000 home-state projects.
The House voted 221-202 Thursday to pass the 1,088-page, $1.1 trillion measure — combining $447 billion in operating budgets with about $650 billion in payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The Senate immediately voted to begin debate, with a final vote likely this weekend.
No House Republicans voted for the bill. Some 28 Democrats, chiefly moderates and abortion opponents, opposed it.
The justification for this profligate spending?
"I see these bills as an opportunity to reverse years of neglect — neglect to our roads and bridges, neglect to our lower-income neighbors and friends, neglect to our education system, neglect to our veterans," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
What? Under Bush domestic spending increased 25% according to this website.
No, what this is is Democrats doing what they do best: tax and spend (the taxes part is coming later after all the spending requires taxes to cut the deficit).
Remember when you were mad at Republicans for spending too much? You haven't seen nothing yet.
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