Crunch time for the 2011 budget

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

Congress and President Obama have just about run out of time to craft a federal spending plan for the rest of the year, raising the specter of at least a brief government shutdown beginning next weekend.

With five days left to approve a 2011 funding plan for federal agencies, the two sides might have to break their own procedural rules to approve legislation by Friday or reverse their stated opposition to approving another stopgap measure to keep federal agencies open a few extra days as they finish their work.

Staff-level talks continued over the weekend in an effort to draw up a total of $33 billion in spending reductions. Yet neither side intends to officially announce a “deal” on that plan.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/crunch_time_for_the_2011_budget/2011/04/03/AFoonzVC_story.html

[msongs]

1. take $300 billion out of the welfare military/industrial war profiteers budget, voila! nt

[plumbob]

2. Why worry? The budget year began in October. There's 6+ months gone.

Just fugedaboudit!

And yes, take all of the cuts from the war department.

[unkachuck]

3. suck this, ryan....

"...his plan would carve out more than $4 trillion in savings, much of it coming from a dramatic reshaping of health programs for the poor and elderly..."

....I don't see why the American people should have to pay for your Republican crashed economy and your Republican looted federal treasury....arrest and convict the Republican criminals and get our money back....you worthless piece of shit

....any Democrat that goes along with this Republican crap should be primaried out of office....

[russspeakeasy]

4. Absolutely...Thanks unkachuck.

[RedCloud]

5. yes! Clean your own poopy diapers instead of crashing democrat help for the people.