Originally posted by TexasRealtor:
Originally posted by TexasRealtor:
Congress controls spending.
My point is congress(Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Libertarian, etc.) control spending and they ALL have problems spending. Until the president has the Line Item veto, he has no power other to sign or veto the bill. There is soo much BS pork attached by the time he gets a bill to sign.
TR, agree with you, Congress is the stop gap. The problem here is that the process is corrupted. Congress needs to be the initiator of fiscal discipline, not a pork barrel processing plant sold out to various special interests and with a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of limited gov't at the federal level. The myriad social programs that the gov't is now paying for only distract from the primary purpose of any federal gov't institution, which is protection of life, from threats foreign and domestic.
I thought line item veto was a reality these days? Was it never passed?
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