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Tea Party Budget Plan by FreedomWorks
The Senate has failed to pass a budget resolution for three years running. And now they won't even let the American people do the job for them. 200 FreedomWorks members and representatives from tea party groups across the country met in the Russell Senate Office building to formally present our plan to balance the federal budget and cut $9.7 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Yet we were not allowed to present our plan. When our Tea Party Debt Commission showed up on Capitol Hill for a scheduled meeting to present our final report, the Democrat-controlled Senate Rules Committee shut us down, ignoring our First Amendment guarantees: the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Ths plan is four months in the making. It is the product of countless suggestions and comments from thousands of local citizen-activists across the country and voting by tens of thousands more online. Unlike other budget plans produced in Washington cubicles and quickly forgotten, this plan represents a milestone because it reflects real grassroots input. The plan’s virtues are those of America herself: optimistic, practical, and bold. The contrast with President Obama’s budget plan could not be starker. His plan was unanimously rejected earlier this year by the United States Senate, and for good reason. It offered neither hope nor change. Instead, it would have saddled our children with more spending, taxes, and debt — more economic stagnation, unemployment, and decay. Read the Tea Party plan and share with others that they may know we can cut government spending.
READ THE TEA PARTY BUDGET PLAN HERE
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
“We cannot mortgage our children’s future on a mountain of debt. It’s time to put an end to the runaway spending and the record deficits – it’s not how you would run your family budget, and it must not be how Washington handles your tax dollars,”-- said then Senator Barack Obama, Oct. 1, 2008.
Websites about on the Debt Crises: Defeat the Debt, Heritage Foundation
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