Who’s afraid of Tea Party’s federal debt solutions? Dirty Harry and his henchmen
What are Dirty Harry and his Democratic henchmen so afraid of? Simple: Concrete solutions to kick-the-can-down-the-road fecklessness.
FreedomWorks explains:
Senate Rules Committee staff on Thursday removed microphones and locked the doors of a hearing room in the Russell Senate Office Building where an informal hearing was scheduled to review the findings of the Tea Party Debt Commission, a months-long crowd-sourced effort to develop a budget proposal that balances the budget, reduces the debt and gets America’s fiscal house back in order
“The Senate hasn’t been able to pass a budget resolution three years running. They have been unable to do their job, and now the Rules Committee is trying to prevent the American people from doing it for them,” said Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks .
“The Senate has refused to let the American people know what the highly secretive budget ‘Super Committee’ is doing behind closed doors,” Kibbe added. “We’ve come to Washington with the real solutions developed by the American people, and the Rules Committee won’t let their voices be heard in an open forum. It’s outrageous. They’re kicking us out of our own building because they’re afraid we are going to do something crazy like balance the budget.”
The hearing was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in Hearing Room 325 of the Russell Senate Office Building, one of three senate office buildings across Constitution Avenue from the U.S. Capitol. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) sponsored the hearing so lawmakers and the public would have an opportunity to hear the findings of the Tea Party Debt Commission (TPDC). The commission of 12 volunteer tea party activists developed its report based on the results of a crowd-sourced online poll completed by nearly 50,000 Americans and field hearings held around the country in recent months
Sen. Lee is leading the tea party members to the Hillsdale College Kirby Center (227 Massachusetts Ave., NE Washington, D.C. 20002), where the meeting will continue.
You can download the PDF of the volunteer panel’s report here.
Intro:
[W]e offer a bold — but, we believe, feasible — plan that:
“Cuts, caps, and balances” federal spending.
Balances the budget in four years, and keeps it balanced, without tax hikes.
Closes an historically large budget gap, equal to almost one-tenth of our economy.
Reduces federal spending by $9.7 trillion over the next 10 years, as opposed to the President’splan to
increase spending by $2.3 trillion.
Shrinks the federal government from 24 percent of GDP — a level exceed only in World War II —to about 17.5 percent, in line with the postwar norm.
Stops the growth of the debt, and begins paying it down, with a goal of eliminating it within this generation.To achieve these goals, our plan, among other things:
Repeals ObamaCare in toto.
Eliminates four Cabinet agencies — Energy, Education, Commerce, and HUD — and reduces orprivatizes many others, including EPA, TSA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.
Ends farm subsidies, student loans, and foreign aid to countries that don’t support us — luxuries we can no longer afford.
Saves Social Security and greatly improves future benefits by shifting ownership and control from government to individuals, through new SMART Accounts.
Gives Medicare seniors the right to opt into the Congressional health care plan.
Suspends pension contributions and COLAs for Members of Congress, whenever the budget is in deficit.In short, the Tea Party Budget enables us to end chronic deficits and pay down debt, while moving us back toward the kind of limited, constitutional government intended by our Founding Fathers. And it does all this without raising taxes. In fact, we make the so-called Bush tax cuts, and other expiring tax relief provisions, permanent. With these reforms, we can unburden the productive sector and get back to robust economic growth and rising living standards for all. With this plan, everyone benefits.
More:
“This is not your father’s debt proposal,” commented Dean Clancy. “This is the only existing debt reduction proposal generated over just four months using cutting edge crowd-sourcing technology, and that cuts $9.7 trillion without raising taxes. While the super-committee is struggling to write a single proposal behind closed doors, we are here today to present a bold but practical plan supported by a coalition of hundreds of thousands of grassroots activists from across the country.”
…Among the members attending were RSC Chairman Jim Jordan (OH-4), Senator Mike Lee (UT), Senator Rand Paul (KY), Congressman Jeff Flake (AZ-6), Congressman Paul Broun (GA-10), Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-8), Congressman Michael Burgess (TX-26), Congressman Steve King (IA-5), Congressman Mick Mulvaney (SC-5) and Congressman Raul Labrador (ID-1).
Live feed of the hearing here.
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Well that’ll make em squeal like pigs!
What?! You mean coverage for dogs was in there too?!
The stupid is strong in Dingy Harry.
Wow–a plan that actually makes sense!
Well of course Harry is against it.
OMG, that plan sounds great! Any bets on if it will ever get to a vote by dingy? If it did get to a vote and pass(pigs flying thing) bho would veto it!
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Maybe instead of calling it the Tea Party Budget they should have called it the Keep The Democrats In Power Through 2012 Document.
And told them they had to pass it to find out what was in it!
Logic cannot exist is a place like Washington, D.C. If Congress gave serious consideration to the plan, well…
Here is secret video of a closed-room meeting in D.C.
The Tea Party needs to occupy the Senate.
Let me guess, latter in the day we will hear on the MSM that the proposed Tea Party debt committee decided to meet in secret at the Hillsdale College Kirby Center instead of having an “open and transparent” meeting in the scheduled room at the Russell Senate Office Building .
With some hard work and good candidates that may just happen come Nov 2012.
Revolution. If not now, when?
Far to sensible to have a chance at passage. And harkening back to the principles of those pesky founding fathers, heaven forbid. Personally, I would do away with the EPA, Fannie and Freddie completely as well.
A great example of why the Tea Party had to be demonized and the OWS protests embraced by the Washington elite.
I’ll guarantee that if, say, Bernie Sanders had invited a bunch of Occupiers in, Chuck Schumer wouldn’t have shut them down.
Call me cynical but it sure seems to me that whatever is going to happen was agreed to months ago. We are just noise to these people. They are just trying to close the deal once and for all and move on to whatever replaces the American Way.
And this is what boehner and cantor have been up to! I honestly don’t know what is wrong with the elected in dc?
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/11/17/has-john-boehner-and-eric-cantor-lost-their-minds-friday-house-vote-on-new-bba-permits-unlimited-federal-spending/
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How is that ‘radical’? The only energy our Energy Dept. has generated comes from their plate spinning and shell game act. Dept. of Education? Not even going there! Fannie & Fraudie are a total BUST and Touching Sensitive Areas won’t even give me decent grope-worthy memory?
Getting out of the Education Inflation ‘student’ loan bidness ( see OWS ) paying farmers not to grow and funding our enemies.
Damn right. Total insanity.
WOT but if you know who Nigel Farage is, good entertainment. If you don’t, shame on you but watch it anyways.
Who’s afraid of the Tea Party’s debt solutions?
Answer: Anyone who wants to live in a decent country.
I’ve tried to respect you people, and Lord knows it’s not easy, but let’s be real – you folks don’t have any answers that make any sense.
But I do like your new Tea Party darling, Herman Cain – his new line is “we need a leader, not a reader” – OMG.
I mean, really? Is this how you people feel? You’re making to too easy not to respect the Tea Party.
The Dimms loaded their half of the super-committee with hacks that guarantee the committee will not be able to find agreement with the Republicans.
It is designed to fail.
If we told you how we really feel, you would soil yourself.
Pasadena Phil,
With the same tenacity MM revels in these messes, ‘I’ OTOH prefer go toe to toe w/ the IRS. Normally on behalf of clients.
Anyway, while on Hold, I get to talking w/ the rep. He explained that about a year ago, directives came down to take a long hard look at Federal employees! Normally I’m hard to rattle but, this I had to hear?
Seems there was rampant flagrant filings, endless extensions, Alpaca ‘farms’, you name it! So there was a huge push to step up collections on Fed workers. They’ve even set up a Task Force style ‘department’ just to address it.
Then look at the TP proposal and tell us they’re worthy of scorn? It shows me, if nothing else, even Progs of a Lesser God have -zero- faith ( nor loyalty ) to the very system they publicly defend. To the Death!
I like the plan but barry and his minions would totally reject it, if for no other reason if we eliminate those cabinets the unemployment #s would take a serious hit
*sniff, sniff* You smell something? Oh, it’s just ILoveMyIndoorTentPole crawling out to say something totally, like, so a-w-e-s-o-m-e. I know I’ve been skool’d.
12% of GDP budget max. No debt increases. The federal government is spending at least twice what it should to fulfill its Constitutional mandate. Whole departments and agencies need to be targeted for shutdown, just as military bases have been over the years. The crony pig party is now over.
Free Americans need to demand the execution of legal arrest warrants to begin prosecuting the corruptocrats and their allies. Lawful concerted action on the part of free American citizens.
There would be no net change in his condition if he did.
RedDog said:
Instead of it being named BRAC ( Base Re-Alignment Committee ) I’m proposing we call it D!CK. Department Incineration Committe Kids!
Uh oh… the Big D!CK is coming ’round. It’s bohica tyme!
+e
Watched that yesterday and then went back and watched it again, it was so awesome, just about on par with Daniel Hannan’s rant a couple years back. We could do with a 100 Nigel Farages here.
Yeah I saw that over on NRO. Looks to me like the Republicans In Name Only have crafted a BBA I Name Only. What a bunch of morons. If it passes it wont do anything but allow more spending. If it fails the Dems will pounce on it claiming that there is no support for a BBA. Boehner needs to go, not just from leadership but needs to loose a primary next year and be gone from Congress once and for all.
And zero out all of those czars. And the secret ones as well.
Marxism/Socialism should be banned just as Nazism is banned. It is essentially totalitarian and undemocratic at its core and is inconsistent with free republics.
It would do one more thing – allow the debt ceiling to go up $1.5 trillion regardless of what the SuperDuperÜberCommittee does (instead of $1.2 trillion with a $0.3 trillion Committee “option”)
Ok, genius. Please tell us how you’d solve the debt problem.
Goose bump awesome. The world needs an army of Farages and Hannans. I’d settle for a couple in America.
Babiesgrandma, that was kewl!
Here’s a question: if you’re a grandma and a Malkin supporter; does that mean you’re like 27 years old and live in the mountains taking care of your grandbabies?
Harry “the snake” Reid, and ooogly Ms. Peloosi will never, I say again, never allow anything like this to be enacted, if only for the simple reason that they despise anything associated with the Tea Party.
ILoveHavingNoFriends@#36: Say what? That post exceeds even the dumbest comments you have ever made.
Well, none of us here are ‘Malkin supporters’? We’re longtime readers, fans and friends because she shares the unvarnished TRUTH on a daily basis. But to my knowledge she’s not running for anything and has never asked us for a dime!
Buzz off twerp.
Not to worry girl, we have your back against ‘IT’. I don’t usually respond to ‘IT’ but ‘IT’s’ comment was way way over the line in post #36. So far ‘IT’ hasn’t gone after our faith yet.
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Said something so dumb, I can’t think of a really good reason to reply. So, adios.
Thanks, LetGet.
Since when?
Thanks to the likes of ILoveMyGoatsAnus, the American public will never have the aggregate intelligence to support a plan like this.
I thought Democrats didn’t stereotype? Sorry for the big word, go run along and look it up, should only take you a couple of days.
If this is your version of respect, I guess we should feel lucky you haven’t unleashed your disrespect. Do you speak to your grandmother or mother this way?
Add to that: Reduce salaries and office expense appropriations by 10 per cent per congressional session for each budget that is in deficit or whenever they impose a tax increase without offsetting spending reduction (real terms, not reductions in increases).
As in having 70 Tea Party Senators elected in 2012.
Yeah, yeah, I know only one third of the Senate is up for re-election in any given federal election. But one can always wish, correct? We can aim for seventy eventually.
Occupy Congress! Take back our country.
Sorry folks – the humor comes from a Chris Rock joke where he says “you know you’re from the ghetto when your mama is only 10 years older than you”
My apologies – please get back to your “unvarnished truth”.
Regards,
ILMC
I guess if you’re ghetto it’s funny…….
So why are our Assistant Democrat leadership on the Super Committee still talking about reducing the rate acceleration of government spending as “cutting spending”?
Why do these same people keep talking about “raising revenues” when they mean raising existing tax rates and expanding on what gets taxed? Cutting the tax rates leads to new revenues! Why don’t they say that?
The only Republican that would win for sure next year is “Generic Republican” but the Rovian progressives are so determined to make sure a liberal Democrat wins the nomination that I guess he’ll have to run third party.
We should take the Tea Party proposal, run on it, elect conservatives committed to it, pass it, have it signed by President Romney, then charge extra taxes to all registered Democrats, including a special additional half your wealth tax to all the Patriotic millionaires that desire to pay more taxes. Fiscal house will then be in order and those who think they should pay more do.
Only when the sailors aren’t around.
Did ILMC say he lives in a ghetto?Now I understand him.
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Sounds like a hell of a good plan to me. Bring it after the Nov. 2012 Tsunami Election and the Jan. 2013 exodus of Comrade and His Ilk from the White House, Senate, and House of Reps.
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With a really Pied Piper flood of dimocrat and RINO bureaucRATs hitting the bricks as newly unemployed. With a lot of investigators on their trails.
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Hope and Change you can really believe in–Conservative style. Check President Reagan’s way of doing things for pointers.
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John Bibb
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I absolutely love this provision–we need to give those spendaholics some motivation to stop overspending–we get ours or they don’t get theirs!
Has Harry Reidiculous already proclaimed this plan to be humanly and physically
logistically and politcallyimpossible or is he just pretending, as usual, that itdoesn’t existis just another Tea Party fantasy?This provision is simply not strong enough. No member of the House or Senate, nor their staffers, should receive any compensation while the budget is in deficit. The pressure to restrain spending must come from their own self interest.
This is what I get for not fully reading all the comments before elbowing in. Sorry stuckinIL4now.
Good post – BigWolf @59.
BigWolf #59,
+ 1000 !
This is what will need to be done to avoid catastrophy. Neither party has any interest in doing so.
Romney/Obama 2012!!!
And which party would that person be supporting? Which party has been supporting that lifestyle since the 1960s?
Blackstone #64,
Would that be the JACKASS PARTY ??
Let’s see if we can get a GOP presidential candidate to run on this as an economic platform. Put your money (or ours?) where your mouth is!
ILMC has not been banned yet?
Other than producing CO2 and other bodily wastes he serves no real purpose.
well, he DOES make my Basset Hound feel superior.
In the long run the USA will default on the debt. I have enough resources to last for a yr @ remote home. G B A! May the L O R D be with us.
I’d go one further and offer bonuses to those members of Congress that voted for a budget that had a surplus.
… and sell all the buildings where they were located.
Our debt is more than the rest of the World combined. The bottom line here, the dirty Democrats and the RINOS will never allow their pet projects and money pits to ever be defunded. 50% of workers pay 100% of Fed Taxes and that percentage will go up. Our way of life and our country has been murdered by these slime balls.
The dead squirrel in my crockpot is superior to ILoveToPopMyPimples.
Um, the People figuring out what they’re really doing?
Fair elections?
Impartial journalists?
Their ‘insider trading’ scam drying up?
Independently-minded self-reliant individuals?
Awesome! The tea party rises again.
happyscrapper
It’s not the Senate that concerns me too much. We’ll get that.
I’m more worried about the House and Herman Cain falling in the polls because the MSM is having its desired effect on republicans.
There’s a lot of people out there who will not tolerate an Obama-lite establishment candidate–even if it means getting BaracknJoe re-elected— just so guys like the Bushes, Roves and Krauthammers of the world can get some shut-eye at night.
As far as I’m concerned, 2012 is the absolute last straw, because these folks are right. We can either die then by paper cuts or a mortal gunshot wound.
And no more excuses: “But, but the people of Ohio were told they would lose police services on TV” or “I didn’t know Obama was connected to radical marxists, terrorist and slum lords”
Or my favourite: “Basically, as rural farmer/blue/white collar worker, I thought I was voting for JFK or Harry Truman when I checked AL FRANKEN, JON TESTER, BEN NELSON and BARACK OBAMA…..well, I “really” voted for Joe Biden.”
hangfire
As I’m sure you already know, it’s not about feelings.
Harry is just protecting the status quo. His senile little mind can’t remember how to do anything else.
As I predicted in March, we will have Romneycare vs Obamacare and Romneycare will lose. It’s more important to the RNC to keep the scams going than let conservatives have a chance to save the country.
GOP-RIP
Romey/Obama 2012!!