…if Republicans in the Senate really do care about making good fiscal decisions, why did every single Republican in the U.S. Senate vote against reestablishing “pay-as-you-go” budgeting rules mandating that any new spending must be paid for? As Josh Marshall of TPM notes, the rule passed on a 60-40 party line vote.
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Take a look at the text of the bill.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:hj45eas.txt.pdf
In reality, its a measure to increase statutory limits on the amount of debt. So i guess pay as you go, is just another term for we’ll be paying our debt for a really, really, long time.
Thanks to Obama and the democrats controlled congress!