So then why go there?
A stopgap bill that Democrats (click title to entry - thank you) hope to pass in the Senate today to avert a shutdown would fund the Pentagon through the rest of the fiscal year and other arms of government for another week at current levels, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said on Friday.
Discretionary spending is where all the wedge issues are for the 2012 elections.
The real challenges to the country is not about their discretionary budget, it is about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Miliary Budget.
The reason those items are not 'on the table' is because they cannot be solved in a Budget proposal. These issues have to be addressed through HONEST debate, requires a COMMENT PERIOD from the citizens in the country, well written legislation that will probably far more than three pages long and should begin ASAP.
The BEST 'rider' that should have been attached to the 2011 and the next 2012 budget bill would be to start a 'five year or ten year' process to take PUBLIC COMMENT on major spending programs. It would provide a time period during which citizens could learn about the spending in these large budget topics, learn where waste is occurring and seek to investigate ways to resolve those problems in order to bring these programs under control from what the country can tolerate and what it cannot not.
On most areas that effect the average citizen, such as banking, which when out of control can cause use impacts to the USA economy should have the same 'frequency' of citizen review, every five years. In other words, once the Banking Regulation Act was passed, the Affordable Care Act was passed a 'time component' that accepts PUBLIC COMMENT should be nearly automatic in a way the public would expect it to be a part of any significant bill.
PUBLIC COMMENT means something. It goes into the record and it is reviewed by the administrative departments involved. The comments cannot be dismissed. There needs to be a measure by which the American citizen can 'redress' the bills after they are passed an implimented. Public Comment does not mean the legislation changes, however, it gives a chance for Americans to be heard and that is made a part of teh record, so that individuals or organizations such as AARP can review the statements of citizens that have gone through the trouble of making comment to understand where the legislation worked and where it missed the mark.
To have this 'seesaw' of passing bills and recalls and attaching social wedge issues to budgets is hideous and results in real ramifications in the world. It really isn't appropriate. A bill doesn't sincerely reach its implimentation until 2 years after its passage due to the irregular implimentation at the State level. It requires at least three additional years to come to understand the implications of a bill and it is the citizen that finds out FIRST the impact of most legislation.
A five year review of major legislation should be a standard in the House and Senate and not simply an accommodation.
A stopgap bill that Democrats (click title to entry - thank you) hope to pass in the Senate today to avert a shutdown would fund the Pentagon through the rest of the fiscal year and other arms of government for another week at current levels, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said on Friday.
Discretionary spending is where all the wedge issues are for the 2012 elections.
The real challenges to the country is not about their discretionary budget, it is about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Miliary Budget.
The reason those items are not 'on the table' is because they cannot be solved in a Budget proposal. These issues have to be addressed through HONEST debate, requires a COMMENT PERIOD from the citizens in the country, well written legislation that will probably far more than three pages long and should begin ASAP.
The BEST 'rider' that should have been attached to the 2011 and the next 2012 budget bill would be to start a 'five year or ten year' process to take PUBLIC COMMENT on major spending programs. It would provide a time period during which citizens could learn about the spending in these large budget topics, learn where waste is occurring and seek to investigate ways to resolve those problems in order to bring these programs under control from what the country can tolerate and what it cannot not.
On most areas that effect the average citizen, such as banking, which when out of control can cause use impacts to the USA economy should have the same 'frequency' of citizen review, every five years. In other words, once the Banking Regulation Act was passed, the Affordable Care Act was passed a 'time component' that accepts PUBLIC COMMENT should be nearly automatic in a way the public would expect it to be a part of any significant bill.
PUBLIC COMMENT means something. It goes into the record and it is reviewed by the administrative departments involved. The comments cannot be dismissed. There needs to be a measure by which the American citizen can 'redress' the bills after they are passed an implimented. Public Comment does not mean the legislation changes, however, it gives a chance for Americans to be heard and that is made a part of teh record, so that individuals or organizations such as AARP can review the statements of citizens that have gone through the trouble of making comment to understand where the legislation worked and where it missed the mark.
To have this 'seesaw' of passing bills and recalls and attaching social wedge issues to budgets is hideous and results in real ramifications in the world. It really isn't appropriate. A bill doesn't sincerely reach its implimentation until 2 years after its passage due to the irregular implimentation at the State level. It requires at least three additional years to come to understand the implications of a bill and it is the citizen that finds out FIRST the impact of most legislation.
A five year review of major legislation should be a standard in the House and Senate and not simply an accommodation.
