Er, most of those things happened in the debt ceiling hostage crisis, so you can't possibly be arguing that they only happen with spending reduction...
That's the entire point that it happened in the debt ceiling crisis. I didn't even add in all the vitriol about the tea party members in the House who were behind the "no more spending" movement.
it's not me that tacks responsibility for spending on the Congress. That's the constitution that does that. And for very good reasons.
That's only half the story ... Congress must provide the yea or nay, but the request to increase the debt doesn't come from Congress and the Constitution doesn't address running up a debt against GDP. So to push it all on Congress isn't accurate.
That is supposed to be the primary check on the executive. The executive branch is naturally going to tend to want to spend more. That's sort of the nature of the branch. The executive is in the weeds trying to accomplish things and is mostly evaluated by the voters on the basis of what they do manage to accomplish. So, they are always going to lean towards wanting more money to accomplish those things. That's true of course of both Democratic and Republican presidents going all the way back. Congress's role, maybe even it's primary constitutional function, is supposed to be restraining that.
Which is probably why they are demagogued by the President and may explain partly, why the citizens have such a low opinion... especially when media constantly trumpet how the people want govenrment to work together. Nothing further from the truth could be more accurate.... a government that works together screws the people... dry... over a chair with no lubricant.
Think of it like this. In a corporation each department submits a budget request each year. No company ever just approves all of them as requested, they'd go bankrupt. Each department always shoots for the moon. They think "what would I like to have ideally" and submit that, then the management goes through and balances priorities against fiscal realities and comes out with a budget. That's how it is supposed to work with the government too, except Congress isn't fulfilling their role, they're just rubber stamping whatever request anybody makes for money.
Actually it's a bit different.... each department may shoot for the moon but there's no congress in a corporation. The executives... (read that as "Executive Branch") doles out the money because they are beholden to a higher group: The Board of Shareholders. The Executives in a corporation (at least in mine) are very stingy with money and devise ingenious ways to tell everyone they don't need the money or require it and only those that are willing to go fight tooth and nail actually get some of it and never how much they actually asked for. The Executives are motivated in that, if they bankrupt their company, they are fired and are replaced.
The problem is our Executives in Government are beholden to their own shareholders - the American people. The problem is, the American people are fed bull**** day and night, and many of them are not interested at all in anything that these executives do. Therefore, the Executives in our government do just what you say they shouldn't.... they give everyone as much money as they can, and they have their toadies in the Congress do it for them, which is basically bribery. The Congress is beholden to the people as well, but no one wants to remove them even though those people that care, think they're collectively doing a horrible job. The Executives get to shell out money like there's no tomorrow because, there's NO CHANCE of going bankrupt... they just print more money!
So your analogy doesn't quite fit with Government. Corproations can't print their own money, are fired quickly when they don't perform, and are executives are ultimately responsible and accountable. Government executives can print money, use bribes to get laws passed to get and spend more money, all framed with the best intentions and for the "people's own good". We're finally at the end though... printing more money won't work. End of the line.
Yes. Stop SPENDING not start welching on your debts to try to save money.
Exactly... time these bozo's are seen for what they really are. I see no problem with that at all.
