Republican Budget
March 26, 2009
Hi All,
The Republican budget alternative rolled out this week. Check it out here. Give it a read and let your friends know that Republicans in Congress are still fighting for an America that our parents and grandparents would recognize!
The three basic tenants of the Republican budget alternative:
Curbs spending
• Limits the Federal Budget from Growing Faster than Family Budgets
• Provides Universal Access to Health Care and Secures Entitlements through reforms
Creates jobs and lowers taxes
• Lowers Taxes
• Keeps Energy and Fuel Costs Low
Controls the debt
•Ends the Bailouts and Reforms the Financial System
• Keeps the Cost of Living Low
~The Webmaster
Fiscal Irresponsibility
March 25, 2009
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement at a press conference today in regards to the President’s budget that spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much.:
“These are very difficult times in the life of our nation. I saw it firsthand in the faces of farmers and small business owners, with whom I met in Rushville, Indiana, just this last Friday. We sat around a small kitchen table in that farmhouse and I heard how those small business owners were making the tough choices. They were practicing fiscal responsibility and they were in what they called the ‘survival mode’ for their business and their farm to get through these difficult times.
“The American people are finding their way through this downturned economy and they want us to put our fiscal house in order here in Washington D.C. Instead, the President’s budget, bringing forward the largest tax increase in American history, record deficits and adding nearly $1 trillion to the national debt every year for the next 10 years. The President’s budget is the most fiscally irresponsible budget in the history of the United States.
“And even worse, it pays for this massive expansion of more government, more spending, and more bailouts on the backs of small business owners and working families and every American household in the form of the President’s national energy tax.
“The American people want this debate. They know the President’s budget spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much. And they know in their heart of hearts that there’s a better way. Republicans, this week, will begin the process of offering a better solution. A substantive, comprehensive budget alternative that will be built on the values the American people are practicing every day during these difficult times. Fiscal restraint and growth. Let the debate begin.”
7 Budget Questions
March 23, 2009
Dear Government,
We, the people, would like the following budget questions answered:
- What impact will increased deficit spending have on the economy/inflation when CBO predicts deficits nearing $1 trillion per year over the next decade?
- The White House predicts 7.9% unemployment in 2010. CBO predicts 9.2% unemployment in 2010. Where are the jobs?
- The Administration raises revenue for increased spending through a series of new taxes, including a “cap and tax,” or light switch tax, that would cost every American household $3,128. What effect will this have on Americans struggling to pay their mortgages?
- CBO predicts a total of $4.4 trillion in budget deficits from 2010-2019 under current law. Under President Obama’s budget, CBO predicts $9.2 trillion in deficits. Why does the President’s budget create a total ten-year deficit that is $4.8 trillion higher than CBO’s current baseline?
- Why is the President’s budget data so skewed? Even with his false data it still doesn’t come anywhere close to balancing the budget.
- CBO predicts that the President’s budget will produce $9.2 trillion worth of red ink over 2010-2019. That’s $2.3 trillion worse than the White House predicted in the budget. Can you explain this discrepancy?
- CBO estimates GDP will fall by 1.5% in 2009 before growing again by 4.1% in 2010 and 2011, partially because of the stimulus bill. How can you make that claim when you openly admit, “It will be quite difficult to assess the impact of ARRA on the economy?”
Too Much
March 10, 2009
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement on the House floor today in response to the egregious overspending in the President’s budget:
“After months of runaway spending at the federal level on bailouts, so-called stimulus bills and big government spending for last year’s budget, just last month President Obama unveiled his budget, a more than $3 trillion blueprint for even more spending.
“At a time when middle class families and small businesses are making sacrifices, Washington continues to spend trillions of dollars on bailouts and new government programs. One independent estimate suggests that the federal government will have to hire 250,000 new bureaucrats just to pass out all the money.
“The President’s plan includes the largest tax increase in history. The majority of his tax increases will hit small business owners, and the new national energy tax will cost every American household up to $3,100 per year.
“The Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Democrat John Spratt, said, ‘This is not an easy budget to market, for sure.’ The reason? The President’s budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much and the American people know it.”
Check Please?
March 10, 2009
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement in response to the reintroduction of the Democrats’ card check legislation, the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act”:
“Card check legislation creates an environment where workers are denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation. Our nation’s hard-working men and women deserve better. This is nothing more than an attempt by Democrats to drive democracy from the workplace. I will oppose every effort to turn this flawed policy into law.
“Congress should be focusing its attention on promoting jobs and small businesses, not promoting misguided legislation that allows intimidation in the workplace. Card check legislation will not help put Americans back to work. In fact, a recent study has documented the devastating impact this will have on job growth and small businesses. This oppressive bill must be stopped.
”I stand with my Republican colleagues and support the Republican alternative, the ‘Secret Ballot Protection Act.’ This commonsense legislation protects our nation’s workers against coercion, violence or retribution by union organizers. Rest assured, I will continue to fight this fight until freedom is safe in the workplace.”
Stem Cell Research
March 10, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement in response to President Obama’s executive order to federally fund scientific research that involves the destruction of human embryos:
“It is categorically wrong to fund unnecessary and immoral research that destroys human embryos. In just a few short weeks the President has made it clear he will use the office of the presidency to weaken protections for the unborn, and will do so using taxpayer dollars. The President has ordered prolife taxpayers to foot the bill for promoting overseas abortions and for scientific research that destroys human embryos.
“Sadly, the President’s action ignores the miracles found in adult stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research has failed to provide a single treatment to a living patient. It’s unfortunate President Obama has chosen to support the empty promises of embryonic stem cells despite the living hope available in adult stem cell research.”
Spending Freeze
March 7, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, continuing his call for a government spending freeze:
“We come to this well at a very difficult time in the life of our nation. American families are struggling under the weight of this recession. Millions of Americans are watching as their life savings are evaporating before their eyes. My own family has been touched by the hardship in the housing crisis and by job loss. So, I come to this floor with a sense of urgency. It’s a sense of urgency that was confirmed this morning with the jobs report, and a startling reality.
“But, in the midst of these very difficult times, the American people are rising to the occasion. As we speak in this well this morning, millions of Americans are doing in their small businesses and their family farms and around their kitchen tables what this Congress should be doing. They are finding places to save. They are putting off expenditures that they don’t have to make this year to make sure they make ends meet for the priorities in their lives.
“Yet, this Congress by this massive omnibus bill is going on with spending as usual. An 8 percent increase in federal spending. The largest increase in a single year since I was in high school in the 1970’s, apart from those months following September the 11th, is not what the American people expect to see this Congress doing. Spending as usual with thousands upon thousands of earmarks and special projects is not what the American people expect from this Congress during these difficult times. They want to see the Congress doing what they are doing. And that is making careful decisions, practicing fiscal discipline and setting aside business as usual to confront these challenging times.
“I rise today to say, as others have said, ‘let’s not just do this continuing resolution for a week, but for the rest of this year.’ Let’s freeze federal spending in virtually every area of the government. Let’s say no earmarks in the year 2009. And it’s not a value judgment on the Members who have made those project requests. I, myself, don’t request projects of that nature.
“But, it is to say that in these difficult times we have to do what every American family, every small-business owner and every family farmer is doing, and that is making sacrifices and practicing discipline. I urge my colleagues in both parties to join the minority today in supporting our motion to recommit. It’s a motion that would essentially freeze all federal spending, say no to historic increases in spending in these difficult times, no to earmarks and say yes to the practiced values of millions of Americans in these difficult days.”
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