After Only 4 Months… GOP Congress Has Cut More Spending Than Any Congress Since WW II (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 5:17 AM
The Republican freshman are already making a mark.
The 2011 Republican Congress has already cut more spending from the national budget than any Congress since World War II.
Several of the GOP freshmen took part in a discussion panel last night on the Sean Hannity Show. Rep. Jaimie Herrera Beutler (R-WA) reminded Sean of the historic budget cuts by this Congress after only 4 months as the majority.
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Miss Smith commented:
Sorry, but I’m not exactly jumping up and down cheering these guys yet. They are still not acting like true conservatives, as far as I’m concerned.
MrBlonde commented:
I don’t appreciate their continuing ruse.
Prepare the primaries.
John Cooper commented:
What a frikkin’ joke. The budget still contains funding for NPR, NEA, PP, ObamaCare, and the EPA CO2 enforcement. It increases funding for the food police. It does cut funding for the Southern border fence, though, as well as a…wait for it…zero point two percent across-the-board recission. Zero-point-two percent??? These people are not serious.
chicago commented:
they cut 14.7 Billion compared to an increase of 773 Billion compared to 2008 levels. I wouldn’t call that progress. I think the GOP PR machine is trying hard to stretch the truth and cover up their incompetence this time. The GOP caved in on the Bush tax cuts fight – settled on a tax freeze instead of fighting for an actual cut. the GOP didn’t do anything to stop QE I and II and worse, many of them supported it. no tax cuts and massive reduction of buying power are not victories. while they are basking in their pitifull “spending cuts,” the dollar had loast around 15% of its buying power in 10 months adding pressure to everyone trying to make ends meet.
the GOP is part of the smoke and mirrors game that the democrats are playing and both parties need to be stopped. I say it’s time for a third party that represents true conservative principles.
the Tea Party is now planning to primary GOP turncoats…
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/155709-tea-party-to-gop-members-shape-up-or-face-primaries-
One of the nation’s largest Tea Party groups is warning congressional Republicans to watch their right flanks ahead of a final vote this week on the long-term budget deal that averted a government shutdown.
Mark Meckler, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, says dissatisfaction with the budget deal has local activists already seeking out primary challengers to sitting House GOP members who are supporting the deal.
Trialdog commented:
Sorry Jim, cannot buy it. House leadership promised 100 billion in cuts and got less than 15bil, even if that is to be believed.
We were taken. Sold out. Our support was bought on lies and misrepresentation.
The republicans can kiss my ass. This country is done.
M McKinnon commented:
It is just a tiny bite in the behemoth that is the federal budget, but they reduced instead of growing. That is huge. Read the law of inertia. More, much more, a thousand times more needs to be done, but these guys changed the trend and that is a beginning.
Mark1957 commented:
They didn’t cut squat, the 2011 budget is higher than the 2010 budget, how is that a reduction? They cut things like unspent census money and used other gimmicks to project the illusion of cutting spending. Just more lies that our government tells us.
rabblerouser commented:
Miss Smith, I agree. I’ve always said, you want results, put “blue collar” workers in charge or “stay at home” Moms, both groups learn to live within their means and would have the budget balanced w/i 6 months. Our government is so out of touch w/reality (both Dems & Reps). I am sick of all of them. Borrow, spend, print, borrow, spend, print…If the people did this is would be called fraud, embezzlement, counterfeit. I am sick of double standards. 1 set of rules for them, another set of rules for us. You know what I want. I want to be able to invest in the government 401K program that averages over 20% return, I want free health/dental for life (even if I am accused of wrong doing), I want to make 175K a year to talk smack about my fellow employees, I want to travel 1st class at your expense, I want a sweet vacation plan each year. (Pah leez)
Andreas K. commented:
For once, the estimated expenditures for 2011 are roughly $4 trillion, overall leading to an estimated deficit of $1.65 trillion. How much was cut? A few billion, the deficit will still be more than $1,000,000,000,000.
Seondly, does this claim consider inflation?
Thirdly, the comparison is somewhat ridiculous when considering the historic concext. There was this thing called Cold War, and that wasn’t really cheap. It was expensive enough to ruin the USSR.
Essentially what is happening here is: the house is on fire and the GOP is trying to extinguish it with a water gun (and I’m not talking supersoaker.)
Granny commented:
Sorry Jim. When you cut only the “czars” who have already left and do not take one dime from a single entitlement program while increasing the budget over last year by billions, that is NOT cutting the budget. That is smoke, mirrors and business as usual.
Boehner is a sham and a shame.
chicago commented:
Liberals are enraged by the budget deal since they are too dumb to see that they’ve made out like bandits. Us conservatives are enraged since we understand fully that the GOP had sold us down the river again!!!….I’m leaving the GOP since the GOP left me. enough is enough, I am tired of carrying water for a party who’s only goal is to be different from democrats by 1%!
Valerie commented:
Congratulations to the freshmen class, and to the leadership and more senior members who have worked so hard to bring this early result. Thanks to our friends and allies, as well. Our country is in better hands, now, and we hope to proceed with more wisdom in the recent past.
It’s a start. Some of that money is money was authorized, but not yet spent. That counts, too, because otherwise it would become part of a slush fund that would be a target for spending. So, taking it off the table is a good first step.
Yes, a LOT remains to be done, and it cannot be done if you start reviling the people who worked so hard to get elected, and after that, to get this much at this time.
People respond better to encouragement, appreciation, and compliments.
Hazing is for candidates.
mamagriz68 commented:
While I’m not thrilled with the way Boehner blinked in this game of chicken with the Dems, I have to think the cuts would have been even less without many of the freshman repubs who aren’t willing to play the establishment’s games. It’s only been a few months, and this deficit has been being built for decades. I’m still willing to give them a chance – until the next election!
chicago commented:
I’ve the “it’s a start” meme every time the GOP caves in. the voters worked just as hard to get these clowns elected. they were not put in the people’s seats to be admired or coddled, they were put in there to deliver what they promised….especially after ALL OF THEM DECLARED THAT THEY CAN DO IT! now we hear that it’s “the best deal that they can get.” I say BULL SH*T.
none of them can justify the $773 Billion dollar increase from 2008 levels, and none of them have presented details on where all of that money went to. all of them shake in their boots when the lamestream media start asking “where would you cut, where would you cut!” when the simple answer is to find out where the $773 billion went to and start cutting there!
what we’re seeing from the GOP is BS. it’s much worse than what the democrats are doing since the GOP themselves thumped their chests and declared “we can stop the Obama agenda in it’s tracks.” instead, the GOP is simply tapping on the breaks just enough to fool everyone that they are doing something about it.
chicago commented:
typo “I’ve HEARD the ‘it’s a start’ meme every time the GOP caves in.”
Militant Conservative commented:
Lots of troll droppings here already. Name’s I have never seen.
Not cheering but wait for the Democrat solution, raise taxes.
There are two ways of generating revenue to the treasury. Democrats know of only one, raise taxes. You do what Reagan did, increase the base by growing the economy.
Since this means freedom to the masses, socialists/democrats (same thing), whill have no part of it.
powder is dry
fightinggranny commented:
This was a dismal affair with the cuts. The R’s need to STOP showing themselves as fools. We are NOT fooled. Tea Party, start getting new candidates to run for Congress next year. This one is not working as expected.
Robert commented:
Primary into the GOP.
NO third party.
RedBeard commented:
These cuts are symbolic, not substantive. Still, better than nothing.
Now let’s get on to the next battle, and do some real cuts.
Mark1957 commented:
Valerie commented:
“People respond better to encouragement, appreciation, and compliments.”
“Hazing is for candidates.”
I prefer to think that fear is a better motivator, if we hung a few of the Congress Critters from the Cherry trees that line the mall the others would straighten their act up.
“When government fears the people there is liberty, when the people fear government there is tyranny”…….Thomas Jefferson
Andreas K. commented:
Two parties, three parties, ten parties… won’t make a difference.
Cause they’ll all just piss on you.
donh commented:
Exactly #1 …these LOSERS are pissing on our leg and telling us that its raining. Republicans were not handed power to ” change the debate” . Conservative media and bloggers are FAILING to apply the needed pressure on these COAWRDS to achieve genuine results. They now OWN this deficit as much as Obama becuase they are ENABLERS. If Scott Walker can do it, so can these Reps. Get the left spoiling MAD . Let them march in the streets . Make them come and take their neighbor’s money like a real thief instead of caving and cowering and sellingout…doing whatever it takes to avoid conflict .
WhoKnew commented:
re: “The 2011 Republican Congress has already cut more spending from the national budget than any Congress since World War II.”
In my opinion someone needs to take Washington State Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) out to the nearest whipping post and lay on a few lashes with a cat-o-nine tails for her blatant lies. They cut, at best, 1.5% of the budget but they sit there like egomaniacs congratulating themselves for the fine work they did! They weren’t elected to act like ‘liberal lite’ Democrats, but like American politicians who love liberty.
This wasn’t a win for either America or the GOP, it was a GIANT win for the Democrats and the Executive branch – both of which are corrupt. These freshmen legislators are sitting ducks for corruption and need to be speaking the truth, both to the American public and to each other.
Mark commented:
This country under Obama, Dickweed, and Piglosi is headed for a train wreck. Luke warm response to runaway spending does not get it.
Militant Conservative commented:
#17 April 13, 2011 at 9:09 am
fightinggranny commented:
Wrong, the TPM candidates did fine. The RINO elite leadership AND the democrats colluded to pass this terd. We just need to Tea Party the remaining Incumbent long term republicans.
This is a long term process, you have to understand this is a life long fight.
powder is dry
donh commented:
These are supposed to be the fresh ones who get it , but they are all speaking the cowardly lion talking points, shifting blame to Harry Ried . People voted you in to cause problems for Harry Ried ..not hand him a complete surrender in humiliating capitulations. Dana Parino was also working the Karl Rove talking points real hard…wearing her establishment T shirt.
gary gulrud commented:
$14 Billion, not 100, not 60 not 38.5. One tenth of one percent of the debt added in 2011.
But the outrage is they lied about the size, in spite of adding to Dimmi opposition, to deceive their own supporters.
Shut the GOP down, bury the dead.
chicago commented:
I’ll make a prediction right now….the GOP leadership will agree to a tax increase and try to sell it to everyone else by showing “massive” cuts.
chicago commented:
or a tax increase for a “smaller” debt limit increase.
Old Fan commented:
It’s a beginning. A good start.
The fashion amongst us is rather bitter, embracing an overt anti-GOP sophistry.
We cannot allow the baseless emotive undermine Our best interests yet again.
Boehner and Company are for real. They held together admirably for 2 years while the Democrats were busy robbing the USA blind. Now they are trying to undue the damage, which is quite tough with a Democratic Partisan controlled Senate and Executive.
It would be much more helpful to see more serious patience, resolve, decency, objectivity, fairness, etc., from Our own side. Constructive guidance is essential, the other fashionable nonsense become utterly counter productive. Too many are following some unstable loud voices.
Time for the adults to save the Country. The more GOP influence, the better in Washington, period. Delaware self destruction should be a distant memory, a lesson we all learned, never to repeat.
Gary commented:
I’m not pouring cold water on it but WWII congresses didn’t have this much spending to cut.
donh commented:
Boehner PUNTED on the budget and the adults just showed themselves to be a bunch of thumb sucking little children wearing diapers unrer their suits. The bitter clingers are the morally corrupt people clinging to public funds and their media guns.
gary gulrud commented:
“Delaware self destruction should be a distant memory, a lesson we all learned, never to repeat.”
Oh, that’s right DE voters in a closed primary axed the worst rated ‘conservative’ in DC. Up by 9 points the week of primary he lost by 6 and we were tragically denied a 48th Republican Senator.
So you know better than 52% who endured a career tick sucking at their scalp for 40 years?
Step in front of Meals on Wheels van geezer.
StrangernFiction commented:
I am getting really tired of hearing this 1/2 of 1/3 line. By this logic if the R’s take the Senate and White House they will still only be 1/2 of the government. And when you only control 1/2 of the gubmint guess what has to take place for bills to pass. Yes, you guessed it “compromise.”
I just want to see “our side” put up a fight as this country goes down the tubes, but I don’t think these folks have it in them.
donh commented:
Thats right…We get the majority and all 3 branches, and there will still be this lame apologetic excuse making for weakness and cowardly inaction as the Democrats threaten fillabusters. Yet the Dems always seem to get everything they want when it comes to their agenda of imposing soicalist tyranny on the majority. What is important about putting up a good fight even if your side is destined to lose a vote from defecters …the voting process forces the corrupted members of the republican party to show themselves. The bipartisian compromise cave ins allow the perverts to remain hidden behind their mask.
bitterclinger commented:
I watched this PATHETIC self-congratulatory exercise last night and was shocked at how thrilled they were with themselves. These former candidates knew The People who sent them were looking for cuts in the trillions, not billions.
They kept spouting that, “We didn’t get into this situation overnight, we’re not going to get out of it overnight,” baloney. Well, they better grow some spines. The clock’s ticking. We don’t have 100 years to get out of it. I look for the commiecrats to have something devastating planned for the next few weeks.
bg commented:
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GOP Congress Has Cut More Spending Than Any Congress Since WW II
yes, they may very well be the largest spending cuts ever..
however, how huge was/were the spending bill/s to begin with??
but imho, we must use ratio factors in these matters..
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Valerie commented:
“What is important about putting up a good fight even if your side is destined to lose a vote from defecters …the voting process forces the corrupted members of the republican party to show themselves.”
Nonsense, unless what you really have in mind is to settle for losing. The voting process is designed to balance the multiple, diverse interests of the people of this country. If it works right, everyone has to settle for a portion of what they want.
If all you can get out of the process is an idea of which Republicans you want to get rid of, you are a Democrat.
StrangernFiction commented:
#31 April 13, 2011 at 10:39 am
Old Fan commented:
I will say this Old Fan, you are a lot sharper than most of the trolls we see around here.
bill commented:
BOEHNHEAD has been a career parasite politician since 1985.
Hope he gets flushed in 2012.
C’mon tea party Ohio 8.
zelda commented:
Sorry, these cuts are nothing! Stop carrying the water for these Rino”s. Our country is hanging off a cliff and they want to be congratulated for doing essentially NOTHING!!!!
Gary commented:
StrangernFiction
I can’t agree with your math.
We currently have have 1/2 of 1/3 (that 1/3 being Congress). If we get the Senate and the WH, we will have 2/3 (the whole 1/3 plus the other 1/3).
Now with those 2/3, there is no need for compromise (as the Dems showed us 2009 and 2010).
The only hang up is in the SCOTUS (the third 1/3).
and don’t forget we also have 1/2 of that (i.e. 4.5 conservatives on the SCOTUS)
so actually, if we get the Senate and the WH, we will have 5/6.
And that will change substantially in significance if just one liberal SCOTUS justice retires after 2012. That would give us the entire government (in a sense).
ogee commented:
TRY CUTTING THIS:
FROM THE NOISY ROOM.
TARP: Out of the $750 billion TARP, our federal government spent $350 billion in taxpayer funds to save 35 foreign banks.
A few of Obama’s 2011 budget items… or should we say “gifts” to the globalists, courtesy of American taxpayers, in order to collapse our economy:
$63 billion – US Global Health Initiative.
$54.1 billion – USAID to other countries for FY 2011 – President Obama already sent $173.5 billion for international/foreign assistance ($90.6 billion in 2010 – a 60% increase compared to FY2008; $82.9 billion in 2009 – a 47% increase compared to FY2008).
$30 billion – of the $100 billion per year for UN Climate Change Policy; the UN admitted global warming is about wealth redistribution, not climate change policy.
$8 billion – US pays to IMF for Greece Bailout.
$2 billion – to Brazil for OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING!!!!
$1.9 billion – International Agriculture Programs.
$1 billion – to Mexico so that they can drill in the Gulf (while Obama caused 23,000 Americans to lose their job because of his ban on US drilling in the Gulf).
$665.7 million – International Family Planning & Reproductive Health Programs.
$147.3 million – US pays Brazil each year in cotton subsidies to keep its mouth shut.
$5.96 million – U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 2010 Awards (i.e. mosque restoration overseas). NOTE: Section 205.1(d) of title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations prohibits USAID funds from being used for the rehabilitation of structures to the extent that those structures are used for “inherently religious activities.”
The above list alone represents $510.82 billion… over half a trillion dollars. Keep this in mind when President Obama and Congress tell us they’ll be able to cut $300 billion from Medicare – a program that all of us pay into and have paid into our entire working life – or when the President proposes a tax increase to take more of America’s wealth to “spread it around” to the UN/global elites in order to weaken America and ensure an economic collapse.
Agent 99 commented:
Bolshevishs here big time with their hidden agendas.
It was the DEMS that had NO BUDGET at all.
Leaving the Rs to try to right the Budget.
No way Jose will Obama agree to cut his pet project “Obama Care”
POWER of the VETO! ((Or with BO an E.O. would do it))
I AM WITH VALERIE!!!!
Thanks Valerie…