McConnell puts balanced budget amendment in motion, some say it’s not enough

balance the budget by taking back the "bailout" welfare $$$$$ given to the Wall street gangsters NOT by denying our senior citizens health care!
Take back America from the Wall Street Gangsters!!

Any poster here could look at the gov Annual Budget and make cuts in wasteful spending and increase revenues for a balanced budget. It's not rocket science the politicians simply don't want to do what's right because of special interests and campaign contributors.

Ya Know.....
I just had the craziest idea.......
Instead of fiddle-fartin around with "Balanced Budget Amendments to the Constitution" and such as that..........
Why dont the Congressmen and Senators just BALANCE THE EFFIN BUDGET???

Things to know about how many times the Republicans raised the debt ceiling under former President Bush:

17 times

And they dare give Obama a hard time for cleaning up the economic mess handed to him?

This is nothing but a smoke screen. Everyone knows these AMENDMENTS mean nothing and rarely pass. What about the Fat Cats McConnell? Why do you want to cut support for the middle class and give corporations and oil companies tax breaks? THAT'S THE ISSUE FOR US AMERICANS.

We can balanced the budget...no more welfare fot the conederate states of american...

It will take forever to get an amendment enacted by Congress and approved by three-quarters of the states, if it can be done at all. Back in the 1980s, Republicans expended enormous effort to get such an amendment but could never muster the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses.

Where was the Republican outrage when Bush started two wars that we financed for six years. They thought the money was well spent then. Funny how some voters are so easily fooled by them.

Republicans are going to hate this, but the only way to balance the budget is to create tax increases that kick in automatically if we don't pay our bills. It needs to be the policy of this country to pay on time, not over time. The advantage of the automatic tax increase is that Congress will trigger it when they vote to spend. They will no longer be able to appease voters by spending more and taxing less at the same time.

The only positive thing to say about the constantly for sale Mc Connell Is that He Is A BooB

How Did We Get a National Debt of $14.4 Trillion?

Congress gave us a debt of $14.4 trillion which increases at the rate of $4 billion a day. Let us look at a few of the items which comprise this $14.4 trillion debt:

Congress spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly. Congress appropriates $147 million a year to subsidize Brazilian cotton farmers. Congress spent $3.6 million to fund a study of the sex lives of dope-smoking, menstruating monkeys. Congress paid $500,000 to paint a salmon on an Alaska Airlines passenger jet. Congress appropriates $6.9 billion a year for the National Science Foundation where they fund such research as that which revealed the amazing fact that sick shrimp do not perform as well on stamina tests as do healthy shrimp.1 Citizens Against Government Waste’s pig book shows Congress spent $16,547,558,748. on pork projects last year. In Sen. Tom Coburn’s Waste Book 2010, which lists 100 spending projects, he shows that $1.5 million was spent to spruce up apartments in Shreveport, La. before they were torn down.

All this spending - every penny of it - and trillions more which is not here listed - has one thing in common: It is all unconstitutional as outside the scope of the powers delegated to Congress in the Constitution. Congress has no constitutional authority to spend money on these projects.
So! It was Congress’ unconstitutional spending which put us in the mess we are in today.

Haven't we heard this song and dance a dozen times before from Republicans? Yet it never passes and they always blame it's failure on the Democrats.

Keeping in mind that the GOP controlled the House, Senate and Presidency from 2002-2006 and never once balanced the budget when they had the sole means to and never proposed a balanced budget amendment the entire time they were in control.

Therefore, we can take the political posturing by McConnell and Cantor with a grain of salt. This is nothing more than election politicking. I wonder when they will revise the old flag burning amendment argument? You know it's coming next.

The only thing Mitch McConnell is interested in is doing everything he can to get Obama out of the White House. That has been his stated purpose since Obama was elected and he has not deviated from acts that would facilitate that at any time. Regardless of what is best for the country, McConnell stays completely focused on getting rid of Obama. This is not representative legislation. This is a witch hunter. McConnell would sacrifice the entire country to oust Obama.

POLITICIANS should wear JUMP SUITS like Nascar drivers with logos of all their sponsors clearly represented. The largest supporter having the largest logo, on down respectively so every TAXPAYER and VOTER knows which way the wind blows. How big would the “WE the PEOPLE” logo be on your politicians jump suit?

MANDATORY DRUG and ALCOHOL testing for ALL politicians too .. at least we can weed out the DRUNKS early and NOT pay their PENSIONS, SALARIES and HEALTHCARE for LIFE!

You've got to be kidding! This is a joke right?

If you cut all discretionary spending and cut military spending by half you would not come close to balancing the budget. This would require MASSIVE tax increases, which I did not think the Republicans favored.

The Republican majority in the Supreme Court said that corporations are individuals. McConnel represents those individuals and would flush the working man down the toilet for his corporate bosses.

Thank you Mr. McConnell. I agree with a balanced-budget! Now, how do you reconcile your position on tax-havens for corporate executives earning over a million dollars per year, while you insist on spending cuts for middle-income Americans? I am a conservative and a business owner, and I cannot fathom your thinking. Please enlighten us.

Was there a balanced US budget during WW2? If not, why not? And how do you balance a budget if you will never raise taxes on anyone? Especially since 2/3's of US budget is Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Defense and interest on debt.

They need an amendment to do the job that they're there to do? Pathetic losers, everyone of them.