Henry Payne for February 23, 2013

Funny how Congress is supposed to write the budget.

Seems odd that they are worried about obesity but not about who pays the bills.

The funny thing about the cartoon is Federal spending has NOT grown in the past 4 years. The treasury actually showed a slight surplus for January. Somehow the ‘Righty’ cartoonists can’t grasp simple facts.

Federal spending is down from last year.Spending increased less under Obama than any modern President, 1.4% for 10-13.But don’t let facts get in the way.

My high school civics class went over this pretty well…Reps/Senate write bills and the other house accepts it, then the President can sign it or veto it. All the President can do is say what he would or would not like in the bill.

I don’t remember mentioning anything about the political parties in my post. I just said that CONGRESS isn’t doing their job.And Obama can’t veto a budget that never gets to his desk. Other than THAT he has absolutely no control over what goes in to the budget.

The real bloat is eating all that “defense”. Social Security and Medicare ARE funded by supplemental payments, NOT “taxes”, “defense” is the real glutton, and it’s the “black budget” part that people never see, not the $500 billion or so that is “announced”, and less than half the defense REAL budget.

How about being committed to fighting fatheadedness in Republicans?