Our Out-of-Touch Congress?
The ‘mainstream media’ is falling all over itself reporting the “deal” to avert a shutdown of the federal government, which would have begun at 12:01 A.M. today. To see how out of touch Congress is regarding America’s coming fiscal armageddon, one need look no further than a news item reported by Terry Jeffrey in today’s CNSNews.com:
“The federal debt increased $54.1 billion in the eight days preceding the deal made by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cut $38.5 billion in federal spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which runs through September.
“The debt was $14.2101 trillion on March 30, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and $14.2642 on April 7.”
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