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Not only is it not up to you, it is not even up to the House of Representatives, as is clearly outlined in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 7, clause 1), all bills relating to revenue, generally tax bills, must originate in the House of Representatives. And as has been mentioned over and over again by literally thousands of irate American citizens, the Obama, Reid and Pelosi led coalition of insurrectionist democrats, have circumvented the power of the House to do their job by not acting on duly passed budgetary legislation coming up out of the House for nearly four years now. They don't want to have their spending inhibited in any way by a budget voted on by the congress, or the people of the United States.

And most, if not all Americans would agree with you, if your assumptions were entirely correct. Unfortuately there is one element of your suggested remedy for our fiscal distress which is altogether untrue. There are no "agreed upon spending cuts." Raping the military is certainly not the answer here. If there were any agreed cuts, as a nation, we'd be on our way out of this mess. There are, in fact, exponential Obama insisted upon, spending increases, in all of our futures and they are massive. Are you really trying to tell me you can't figure out that the 22.8 trillion dollar deficit, as posted in the predictions of the "national debt clock" by your cohort RealVille, aren't direct contradictions to any assertion that we are cutting anywhere? As I already mentioned today, cutting down on proposed spending increases a smidge or two, does not represent any kind of a cut. It's just another way for dems to cleverly lie their way out of any responsibility for continuing to force us into bankruptcy at the speed of light. We have yet to see the dems willing to cut the first dime, it's a complete load of bull.

You or nobody else can even start to explain to me why we are allowing this ever increasing spending madness to keep going on. The best of the brightest minds the liberals have to offer, won't even attempt to justify the suicidal rate of federal spending which, can only be described as a 'feeding frenzy'. By the end of Obama's second term, there won't be a thing left of our economy except a little blood in the water. We don't have two countries here, when the economy tanks, causing everybody to lose their savings, their pension funds and then the medical system crashes, it will happen to everybody not just the republicans.

The one saving grace might well have been our two party system of checks and balances, and a potent and functioning legislative branch, to keep us from having to hit the streets, scavenging for food like in some scene out of a sci-fi film. But no, you guys want to hand all the keys for the kingdom to one man, who controls one party, the dems. And would gleefully see the republican party laying in ruins, thusly, guaranteeing the demise of our land. We need the two parties. If someone would have told me America would allow one party to define the other I'd never have believed it, but, that's what is going on. The idea that all the dems are saints of somekind, who always tell the truth, while all the republicans are evel rich white guys who always lie, is so absurd, I can't believe anybody would seriously need to respond to it. Why not let our government protect us the way they are supposed to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011