Get a Load of All These Programs the Feds Are Unofficially Funding This Year
- Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:11pm by
Becket Adams
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The Congressional Budget Office has released a report on all unauthorized appropriations and expiring authorizations for fiscal year 2012. The report has been sent to both the House and the Senate.
The purpose of the report is to act as a reminder of all stopgap measures that are in place. The government is running on a series of continuing resolutions.
“How big a deal is this?”asks Business Insider. “Potentially, it’s a very big deal. The amount involved is $969B!”
The report is comprised of two lists. This first one looks at the spending for which the necessary enabling legislation has already expired:
This second list is for those expenditures whose authorizations expire on or before September 30 of this year:
The CBO report lays out exactly where all of the money is being spent (it runs over 100 pages). Here are just a few examples of the expenses found in the CBO report (via Business Insider):
General Administration:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 11,519,966,000United States Marshals Service:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 11,806,793,000National Institutes of Health:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 30,689,990,000Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 1,061,000,000Operations of the Peace Corps:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 375,000,000Migration and Refugee Assistance:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 1,639,000,000Department of State Diplomatic and Consular Programs:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 8,275,386,000Section 8 Tenant-Based Housing Assistance:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 18,914,369,000Low-income Home Energy Assistance:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 3,478,246,000
Noxious Weed Control and Eradication [this is a real thing]:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: Not AvailableBrown Tree Snake Control and Eradication [and so is this]:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: Not AvailableAssistance to Trafficking Victims in the United States:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 9,794,000Administration on Aging Programs:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 1,473,703,000Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 610,224,000National Endowment for the Arts:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 292,510,000Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 62,700,000Project Bioshield:
FY 2012 Appropriations: Not AvailableStrategic Petroleum Reserve:
FY 2012 Appropriations: 192,704,000National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:
FY 2012 Appropriations Authorized 24,693,000,000Federal Trade Commission Operations:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 311,563,000Centers for Disease Control programs Regarding Infertility and Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 964,855,000Corporation for Public Broadcasting:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 445,000,000Administrative Expenses for Government National Mortgage Association Guarantees of Mortgage-Backed Securities:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 19,500,000Funds Appropriated to the President for International Assistance:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 16,462,253,000Secretary of Health and Human Services Refugee and Entrant Assistance Programs:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 769,789,000Pacific Salmon Treaty [yes, this is a real thing]:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 123,566,000Nutria Eradication and Control Act [another real thing]:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: Not AvailableBureau of Land Management:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 973,552,000Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: Not AvailableRenewable Energy Research and Development:
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 963,000,000Appropriations for the Coast Guard:
(1) Operation and maintenance
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 7,051,054,000
(2) Acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 1,403,924,000
(3) Retired Pay
Unauthorized FY 2012 Appropriations: 1,400,700,000Specialty Crop Research Initiative:
FY 2012 Appropriations Authorized 100,000,000Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database Program:
FY 2012 Appropriations Authorized 2,500,000National Sheep Industry Improvement Center:
FY 2012 Appropriations Authorized 10,000,000Block Grants for Energy Efficiency:
FY 2012 Appropriations Authorized 2,000,000,000
And if none of these expenses strike you as particularly silly or wasteful, take a look at the entire report. There’s something there for everyone.
See the Full Report Here.
(H/T: Bruce Krasting, My Take On Financial Events)
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Comments (210)
JustMeHere_01
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:23pm@BERNBART
The 1st two years of the Obama Administration had control of both the Senate and the Congress. This President has yet submitted a budget to run this country. Pres. Obama appears to have a blank check to run this government the way he sees fit without submitting a budget that would outline what he is doing to this country.
This is going into the 4th year of this administration and there has been no budget that is open to the American public to describe the intentions of this administration. Pres. Obama with the support of Senator Harry Reid has managed to hide what this administration has done for the past 3 years and intends on doing for the next year.
You can make all the claims that you want but the fact is that any bill coming out of the Congress is stymied by Harry Reid. That is the absolute fact.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:09pmSomeone should start a NEW PARTY——–WHERE IS THE BUDGET???
1000 days and NO Budget?
No wonder this country is BROKE.
OMG in 2012!!!!!!!!!!!
iblvingd
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:19pmThe Noxious weed control is very real as Monsanto with their GMO have created super weeds that their round-up resistant crops now no longer be killed off with round-up, which is in the soil, the air, our food the chemicals are killing us. Now they are working on something called b-2 ( i probably have the name wrong, but its base is agent orange) Law suits are cropping up everywhere against Monsanto. Its as dangerous as Soros and Obama it pulls too many strings in Washington. http://www.osgata.org/seed-news
Report Post »iblvingd
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:21pmThere is so much much Government caused and grown waste…..Vote out everyone who has been in two or more terms this year. (it would take a couple of election cycles) Only a new congress and new President will save America.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:59pmEvery single dollar spent on a government program is a dollar that would have been better spent in the market.
Did you personally need a brown tree snake removed in the last year? No? You paid for it anyway. Here‘s a service 10’s of millions of people don’t need, but 150 million people were forced to pay for it.
Had those people chosen to spend that money on their own, their collective contributions to the market would have pooled in places that were better run and more efficient. Driving the market to improve for its customers. Better yet, many of those people wouldn’t have spent the money, but saved it toward a future purchase.
Of course, the government is encouraging you to stop saving. Who complains that we are a consumer culture, but then tells us we have to keep spending to keep the economy going? That’s stupid.
Real wealth is created when you grow the economy and wealth. Increase interest rates, and more people will save more of their earnings. Those earnings become real, loanable funds to potential home-owners or small businessmen.
The home-owner gets a house sooner, the businessman improves his business, and the investor is rewarded for risking his money on the homeowner and the business man.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:06amGeez, if Capitalism isn’t the most ethical and moral of economic systems. Humans depend on each other, and they make constant choices about how to spend their time, energy, and capital. A central authority, operating in a complex modern economic system, can’t possibly forsee every outcome or choice.
But when they try to, the realize they can’t. The only way you can, is if you limit choice and take control of people’s behaviors. The problem with controlling human beings is the more you control, the more you have to control. Central Planners have never predicted human behavior well, and generally make problems they try to solve much worse. Freedom is traded for the promise of security.
Really, freedom is traded for scarcity. Government can’t let the collective system become wasteful and inefficient, because it must always serve the greater good, so those who couldn’t make it on their own must still be dragged along with everyone else. No one can be left behind. Moreover, everyone must participate in dragging, whether they want to or not. That’s a form of slavery. Did slaves produce at maximum capacity when working for their masters? Probably not.
Free, happy people always outproduce the miserable. Freedom starts with economic freedom, and the freedom to choose not to participate.
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:00amIf you think that is bad, check out what the audit of the Federal Reserve that was performed in July found. Warning place all dangerous weapons away from your computer before you read it.
http://www.unelected.org/audit-of-the-federal-reserve-reveals-16-trillion-in-secret-bailouts
Report Post »JustMeHere_01
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:09am@JAYCEN,… I wish I could have said it as well as you just did. You have a way with words for sure.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:53amThanks, Justmehere.
I’ve been educating myself on history and economics.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:38am@TBL10 Obama is spreading the wealth,..middle class America looses and the bankers win…. Even armed with the truth we seem powerless to stop them…our leaders are corrupt beyond redemption..we are all headed towards economic slavery…End the federal reserve and destroy the criminals
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:46amThis is what happens when greed and special interests run the country- both sides of the aisle are guilty of taxpayer theft and should be tarred and feathered, run out of the country.
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:32amIf we want a budget, we are going to have to vote Republican. The Democrats have proven they don’t want a budget. If we have to have a budget, why should the Democrats be allowed to be undisciplined?
Report Post »Rweb
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:08amHe did submit a budget it was just so crazy the dems wouldn’t even vote for it. He has never passed a budget cause he wants a blank check.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:16am@iblvingd
I read that too, about the agent orange…my uncle died of cancer related to agent orange in Viet Nam. He handled it (they asked for volunteers, you, you, and you…)
But Obama does have a budget…spend all we have, borrow all he can and spend it. Increase the welfare/medicaid rolls to spend more. You have heard of Cloward and Piven, right?
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:56am@TBL10 I had read quite some time ago that the banks were loaned 16 trillion and that is where I made the assumption that we are 16 triilion in debt ..was I wrong to assume that?
Report Post »ninja
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:38amBlank check: yes
it’s the complicit house republicans voting for continuing resolutions & raising the debt ceiling limit.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:43amBlock Grants for Energy Efficiency – $2 Billion Funds Appropricated to the President for international Assistance (Slush Fund) – $16 billion National Endowment of the Arts – $292 Million Bureau of Land Management – $ 973 million Corporateion for Public Broadcasting – $445 Million Pacific Salmon Treaty – $ 124 Million Wow – cutting these I just saved $20 Billion bucks that we donm‘t have and won’t have to borrow from China.
Report Post »ninja
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:43amMarch 2011
The CR passed Tuesday afternoon by a vote 271-158, and 54 Republicans voted nay on the measure. Republican House leaders, Speaker John Boehner (Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) voted in favor of the measure.
There’s your problem.
Support the 54 & kick the cans of the establishment republicans down the road……..and for God’s sake dont vote more of the same in.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:09amOkay..please don’t hit me..but one more question…Does this mean that we are not only liable for 15 trillion in debt…but there is another 16 trillion that we are responsible for?
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:12am.
If the republicans would grow a set, they’d cut this funding.
There is only one party in Washington, the Scam The Taxpayer party.
Sadly, neither Gingrich or Romney will cut one penny from this.
If the bus is going over the cliff, does it really matter if
Obama has the pedal to the metal, or Romney has it on cruise control?
Congress looks at Greece and says, “We better get ours before the SHTF.”
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:23pmGeneral Administration: Meh.
United States Marshals Service: Ok.
National Institutes of Health: Meh.
Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination: No.
Operations of the Peace Corps: No.
Migration and Refugee Assistance: Huh?
Department of State Diplomatic and Consular Programs: Ok.
Section 8 Tenant-Based Housing Assistance: No.
Low-income Home Energy Assistance: No.
Noxious Weed Control and Eradication: WTF?
Brown Tree Snake Control and Eradication: WTF?
Assistance to Trafficking Victims in the United States: Huh?
Administration on Aging Programs: Huh?
Bureau of Labor Statistics: No.
National Endowment for the Arts: No.
Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act: Meh.
Project Bioshield: Huh?
Strategic Petroleum Reserve: No.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: No.
Federal Trade Commission Operations: No.
Centers for Disease Control programs Regarding Infertility and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: No.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting: No.
Administrative Expenses for Government National Mortgage Association Guarantees of Mortgage-Backed Securities: No, no, no!
Funds Appropriated to the President for International Assistance: No.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Refugee and Entrant Assistance Programs: No.
Pacific Salmon Treaty: WTF?
Nutria Eradication and Control Act: Huh?
Bureau of Land Management: No…
Renewable Energy Research and Development: No.
Appropriations for the Coast Gu
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:27pm(Continued:)
Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database Program: Huh?
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center: WTF?
Block Grants for Energy Efficiency: No
So, how much did I just save the taxpayers? (“Meh” = probably shouldn’t be, but…)
Report Post »Unix
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:39pmWell, we can OFFICAILLY defund them, by not paying taxes can’t we?! I am not OWS or Alinsky type, or communist. I am just an ordinary citizen who has had enough of these stinking communists in power, defund and defang them.
Report Post »acovenantinblood
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:27pmWhat do you mean the first two years of Obamas presidency he had control of the House and Senate? It looks to me like he still does!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:19pmOk. I am going to make this as succinct as possible.
The World‘s Richest and most Powerful have been wanting to take America Down from it’s Inception.
This goes way back, unfortunately I only have 1305 characters left.
In 1912 America’s federal Government was broke (What’s new?)
They turned to the Aforementioned for a Loan: Richest, Most Powerful.
The Federal Reserve PRIVATE bank was born. STILL TO THIS DAY, NO MORE FEDERAL than FEDERAL EXPRESS.
In 1933 we defaulted. Gov‘t liqudated it’s Gold. Not enough.
The Gov’t forced “citizens” to turn in their gold under martial law. Not Enough.
The “gov’t” (Most were already in bed with the Banksters) PLEDGED America’s LAND, GOVERNMENT and PEOPLE as collateral for the “Governments DEBT”.
They promised that you would pay taxes all your life, to the Federal reserve PRIVATE BANK.
THIS is a COMPLETE CONTRADICTION to our Constitution. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT can not pledge an individual, when it was created to protect our FREEDOMS and LIBERTY.
We the PEOPLE, own the GOVERNMENT. NOT the other way around.
In 1933 birth Certificates became Law in all states and Social Security in 1936.
These are interest-bearing bonds for the receivers of the Bankruptcy to hold.
In 1944 at the Bretton Woods Agreement the lien on the America and it’s “Assets” (YOU)
were quitclaimed to the IMF and WORLD bank (Banksters). They created the UN in 1945.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:43pmProblem solver, thanks for putting the puzzle together.
So, now an over seas co. Run by Goldman sacs bought the rights to tabulate US election votes, and their owned by the fed reserve.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:46pmyeah we need a new party the necktie party we go to DC and string these traitors up in both partys. then we go after all the subversives that are destroying this nation. hows that for a party? if the dont believe in the constitution they are traitors to everything American. wake the hell up America! its time to raise some hell.
Report Post »autoteck1
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:36pmYes Harry Reid has steimied all the bills coming from the house, But the house has the final say on passing his stopgap bills. They have to say no and stand up for the constitution, the administration is required by law to have a budget in place every year. They are in violation of their constitutional requirement and therefore deralict in their duty. An impeachable offence
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:40pm@Falsegods
It is not only my pleasure, but my DUTY to inform my fellow Americans what I have learned.
Knowledge is POWER !!!
We are ALL victims of the Crime of the century.
These two sites explain more in detail:
http://www.teamlaw.net/history.htm
http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:48pmThe list of institutions that received the most money from the Federal Reserve can be found on page 131 of the GAO Audit and are as follows..
Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000)
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000)
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000)
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000)
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)
Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000)
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)
UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)
and many many more including banks in Belgium of all places
And the US is borrowing from china for this ! They’re nuts.
Report Post »Jimbo65
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:55pmThis is how you rule without a cooperative congress. The legislator can go home and say, “I didn’t vote for that!”, and Obama can say, “I had to leave congress out of the loop because they are a do nothing Republican congress.”
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:49pmProblem solver,
Report Post »OMG and WTF.
Thank God, I have trust in God.
And , I know his Will, will be done.
Ruler4You
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:35am@JAYCEN I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:04pmThe man is in violation of the anti-deficiency act, no doubt…when are they going to call him on the carpet…the Republicans are allowing this to continue? Run the man out on a rail.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:29pmSam, the Republicans are just fat dumb and happy. They can blame all their problems on Harry and Obama and do nothing. We are at the mercy of a bunch of crooks. Both sides of the isle are complicit!
Report Post »NoNannyState4me
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:40pmNothing they can do with a Senate that will rule in Obama’s favor over any of it. Only way he get’s any grief over it (Obama) is IF he wins re election and IF the Repubs take over the Senate after Henry Reid makes a move to let the simple majority in the Senate put major bills into play.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:05pmYeah u may be right, but I’am afraid the next WH admin. will find the WH empty with cob webs & a empty can of tuna fish.
Report Post »JustMeHere_01
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:36pm@SamIamTwo
I think that I disagree with you SAMIAMTWO. The Congress that is controlled by the Republicans have passed numerous bills and have sent them to the Senate for their vote. It just so happens that the Senate is still controlled by the Democrats and the Democrat Leader Harry Reid has made the choice to table anything that comes from the Congress that he does not agree with.
Harry Reid has one agenda and that is to stifle any legislation that is passed by the Republican Congress so that he can later claim that it is a do nothing Congress. If the people believe him then he wins. If the people do their own research and determine what the real facts are then hopefully they will elect a Senate in 2012 that will remove this joke of a leader and put someone in place that really cares about our Country and not and iIdeologue.
I happen to care about this great country of ours and hope for decent and moral leaders. Not what we currently have in the Senate.
Report Post »amdoktor
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:27amWhen most of the population is sleeping thru this, we are still arguing about which party is at fault. The token resistance by the Republicans is all for show. The Republican has been compromised many years ago and are one and the same as the Dems. Both sides of the isle need to be purged of the Progressive socialist agenda by replacing them all. How can or can this be done? Not likely, unless the sleeping masses get their heads right and vow to save this Nation. To much, “this isn’t affecting me at this moment“ or ”what reality show is on tonight”. The real reality is being ignored and the masses stick their collective heads back in the sand. (ex Republican party member)
Report Post »God bless us all Ron Paul 2012 restore our Nation!
PApeacemaker
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:22pmWhat a load of horse crap! here I am working my a$$ of 35 hours a week making $8.00 an hour & these so called groups get MILLIONS of dollars just handed to them. AN ITS MY MONEY that they government gives them. It just ticks me off something fierce how about throwing some of that money into the (poor hard working white guy fund) instead of the migrant & trafficked people fund, that I could give a rats behind about, screw those illegal mexicans if they come here illegally why should I pay for them to get back to mehico. They can walk there legs arent broken, they walked here didnt they?
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:50pm@ PApeacemaker
Report Post »Not entirely right. $.41 of every $ is borrowed from the Chinese. They are obligating your unborn grandchildren, not just you.
wolfinshdo
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:04pm@ papeacemaker… I hate to say it but if your making $8 an hour, what little taxes they may take out weekly, you would get back at the end of the year. If your old enough to live on your own and/or have a child, you probably get back more then you actually paid in. Heck, @ $8 an hour in NY you would qualify for all kinds of Social programs.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:18pmremember when obama said he was going to go line by line through the budget and cut all these unauthorized expenses?
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:25pmYeah ,, but he don’t remember.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:27pmYep. Do you remember when he just punted on a budget that was the same ole same ole last year and it failed in the senate 97-0?
Report Post »wolfinshdo
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:08pmWait, claiming he said ANYTHING (even if it was recorded) is racist. You can’t claim he did anything, said anything, failed anything or forgot anything. Didn’t you get the memo?
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:17pmTotal WASTE
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:18pmthat about sums up the federal government…
Report Post »shackero
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:15pmJust more proof that Congress is totally irrelevant. The purse-strings NOW belong to the “processes” of government. Saddly, Cass Sunstein is more relevent than both houses of Congress…………
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:12pmThe primary difference between Capitalism and Cronyism is that investments made in a Capitalist Economy, a made for the purpose of enhancing the nation’s wealth and earning a profit for the entrepreneur; under the Cronyism Economic System, investments made for the purpose of increasing and perpetuating the Tyrant’s power. Thus, under a Capitalistic Economy investments enhance the prosperity and raise the standard of living of all citizens under cronyism investments deplete the wealth and expand the tyranny. Cartoon description of the Cronyism Economy: http://commonsense21c.com/CRONYISM.html
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:10pmportague:
Report Post »The Senate refusal was done by the Republicans in a the Seante closure/filibuster move, as the ahve done with many issue. Everyone s very clear the Obstruction in Congress is originating from republicans. That is why their ratings are at all time low.
TomFerrari
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:24pmAre you referring to pelosi who started it all? Or, are you referring to harry reid who REFUSES TO EVEN ALLOW IT ON THE FLOOR ! Let alone VOTE !!!
You should get your information from something other than shows featuring hate-mongers like rachel madcow and websites that are all puppets of the EXTREME LEFT !
Even my Democrat friends are fed up with this nonsense. They will never change their registration, because their dad was a Democrat, and they will always be a Democrat. BUT …
They are FED UP with you EXTREMISTS taking over their party and dragging it through the mud called SOCIALISM and trying to convince them that THEY need to be more extreme !
NOPE !
They are on to you extremists too. They will either vote R or they will stay home. They tell me they cannot vote for this ridiculous nonsense, now that they know what it is. They WANTED to believe last time, so they took “hope” and “change” – this time? This time, they have FACTS. No more slogans, but hard FACTS. obama has a track record now. One he must run FROM, not “on.”
Report Post »shackero
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:27pmBernBart——
Report Post »It is sad to see Americans so divided. You call your neighbor a Right-Winger—he calls you a socialist—-And I bet that you have more in common with your neighbor than not.
it is just sad how divided we are —-President Obama needs us divided I believe—-That is his path toward another 4 years in the Whitehouse.
As a Libertarian-leaning, fiscal-conservative, I would love to see Ron Paul win—His Foreign-Policies are the down-side with him though. Whoever wins, we will need a Congress that believes in a limited government to keep the president in check—-You can call it obstruction, or whatever………..
weneedrubio
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:29pmThere’s no doubt even in your closed mind that the libs/Dems are the ones doing all the spending on crap that not only doesn’t help, it hurts. Get a grip you hateful loser and get a job to.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:34pmTheir is no obstruction in congress, your crazy. Don‘t tell people what they don’t know…. Nobody is clear that the obstruction is coming from the Republican House of Representatives. Only you, and those that blame the Tea Party. Those people are Soros funded commies and if you spout those talking points then you must be one of them… granny.
The obstruction is 100% in the Harry Reid Senate. In the 2012 elections the do nothing senators that are up for re-election that are leftist are gone. The republicans/conservative are going to get a filibuster proof majority in the senate. Period. You can thank Oblamer for that….and if your Huffpo or Move on dot org or the Occupiers and Robert Reichhhhhhhhhhch and NPR tell you otherwise, then your hearing their wishful thinking. Oblamer is the single greatest thing to happen to Republicans.
Pretty soon all 50 state and Puerto Rico will Republican controlled House and Senates, it’s that bad and the tea party is responsible for the change. Yay…. Period. You are wrong Granny.
Report Post »santababy52
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:14amIt seems to me that whether you are liberal or conservative this list should piss you off. This list, my friend, is the doing of both parties over many years! This should make everyone’s head explode and call their congressional representatives on a daily basis. None of it makes any sense regardless of which side of the “aisle” you are on!
Report Post »bringiton
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:27pmJust another lying pos lib.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:03pmdrago:
Report Post »I am the mama and grand mama here! I’ll leave the porn to you right wingers
doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:10pmThe Porn is being watched at the Justice Dept. Dept of Homeland Security, and other bureaurats who have nothing better to do with their jobs of waste.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:25pmHey bern how long is the handle on your shovel? Is the handle hollow? I ask because I am the Grand papa that will not be sit on the sidelines and watch you and yours destroy this nation! Bring it turd! I fckn triple dog dare you!
Report Post »I am 'We the People
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:10pmYour statements bern, go to show your extreme lack of intelligence. Not only do your arguments and rants hold no water, but they show a lack of taste seen only in elementary age children. (Although I know many of that age group who could out wit you.) The reason I point this out is not to antagonize, so much as point out I have never seen this kind of rhetoric spouted so willingly by an adult, of which I assume you are.
While you may hold completely different political and sociological viewpoints, and there is nothing wrong in having a difference, you seem to act as if no one else is allowed the same privilege. Plus you seem to believe you are the only person, or your political ideology is the only one that could possible be correct. I am sorry but your ideology must hold up to scientific scrutiny; if with all the practice and testing throughout the history of the world, utilizing aspects from the current american “democratic-liberal” philosophy it was established to actually work then I would agree with you more often. The problem lies in that the opposite is true. I.E. every time the ideologies that current liberals possess are enacted the system utilizing them fails. Scientifically speaking you need to rethink what you place your faith in.
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:03pmI want to know whose pockets are being lined with the millions going to the ‘justice’dept.‘ labor’ dept
Report Post »sick, inexcusable and the fault of the alleged leader in DC. He has broken his oath and we do not wish to employ him anymore.
bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:01pmdrago:
Report Post »You are all insane. It is the responsibility of the House of Representatives to approve all budget appropriations (even stop/gap budgets), before they go to the desk of the president to sign.
doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:18pmYour wrong, the nighmarish disaster, Harry Reid’s senate is what you mean to say Bernbart…Your welcome.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:36pmDemocRats haven’t passed a budget since President Foodstamp Obama was elected.They even had both houses for 2 years. Get yer facts straight mister.
Report Post »santababy52
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:16amAnd so which party was in control of these measures before 2010?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:42amthe House can submit & pass budgets all day long, but it matters not if the Senate fails to pass them or the president fails to sign them.
The house could pass any imaginable budget in the universe from good to bad, the Senate would not vote on it & the President would not sign it.
If the House passed any budget even good ones, Harry Reid would say it is DOA (Dead on Arrival). the president would say the Republicans are not cooperating.
BernBart (which is a play on the name of Breitbart) go crawl back under your rock, TROLL.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:54pmThis Government sure likes the word “Unauthorized” a lot. They seem to use it more than words like (a) (it) (the) (of) etc,
Report Post »gemmeri
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:09pmWe the people… Did most assuredly NOT authorize this mess or list of unnecessary expenditures & that’s NOT why these representatives were elected to their offices.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:53pmUnauthorized.That pretty much sums up the shenanigans and expensive games that are being played on American people,on our dime.REVOLT,not matter how inconsequential it may seem.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:01pmblame your Tea Party in the House.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:12pmThe tea party is for lower taxes, smaller gov’t, less spending, and more liberty.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:43pmBernbart,your full of it.Your political knowledge has all the duration of an ant and it shows.
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:50pmTen Million for “ National Sheep Industry Improvement Center” ? *blinks*
Report Post »gemmeri
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:00pmYeah, I’m really wondering about that one in particular. What the hell does it mean? Do we have problem sheep in this country? The vagueness about this list really irks me. I‘m surprised we don’t have a category for ‘The Ilk’ as well. That about sums up our government.
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:08pmWe have a huge problem with sheep in this country, They are all around you. Their Official titles are “Democrat” “Liberal” “RINO” wow never mind There are just far too many to list here. Carry on!
Report Post »TowerOfBabble
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:22pmThat’s for the sheeple following the NWO…
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:46pmIf you are not voting for Ron Paul…Then just shut your mouth about the out of control spending…He is the only one who will end it…So just shut your mouths
Report Post »bombshelterbob
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:56pmOff the meds again Shylow?
Report Post »gemmeri
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:57pmRon Paul has been a part of the problem & part of this list with all the rest of them. He had the chance to make a difference & he didn’t do so. You will never convince anyone with half a brain that any of the current candidates intend to rectify things the way they need to be done. They are all part of the system, they went with it & they approved it in one way or another. The really sickening thing is they realized benefits for themselves while it was going on & that is unacceptable. I say we retire the whole bunch & deny them Social Security or Medicare or pensions or whatever until this mess is resolved. They have already been overpaid. I would be rather inclined to seize their assets & let them sit in jail while their malfeasance is investigated.
Report Post »Nasado
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:57pmAnd the Paul drones are out again. You know what scares me about Ron Paul, all of his followers like you. The last time that there were such dedicated and blind followers to a nominee, we got who we have today. Ron Paul will not be president and honestly I say much of the blame for that goes to his followers.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:03pmThe Government is who you vote for…so if you vote for a big spender you will get a big spender…Ron Paul as president will have veto power…and beleive me he will take full advantage of that…
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:06pmOf course eon Paul, the do noting congressman, is in the House or Representatives where budget Appropriations originate.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:14pmWhat are your canidates going to do about the spending?..I’ll tell you…Not a freakin thing!!!..We all know it,even you…Ron Paul cuts 1 trillion first year,without touching entitelments
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 3:55pm@Nasado
Let’s see, you obviously vote for the establishement candidates who have run our budget and Bill of Rights into the ground, as you call others blind?
You know…the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over while expecting different results. Your party offers you horrible choices, and like sheep you willingly pull the lever for a candidate you consider fatally flawed. It is blind loyalty like this that is the very reason the powers that be continue to offer you such buffoons.
Yes, Ron Paul is not likely to win the nomination because of folks who are blind…just like you. And then…when nothing changes, you will once again be offered the likes of McCain, Romney, and Gingrich in 2016…and you still won’t be able to figure out why nothing changes. You will just once again pull the lever…while Rome burns.
There is only one candidate who is for restoring the Bill of Rights, and who’s record proves he is fiscally responsible, and because of blind party loyalists who vote for party over principle…your kind has doomed our nation to certain failure.
Because of the open contempt you party loyalists have shown towards Paul’s supporters by calling us crazy, blind, Bots….ect, and the fact that Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich are all Obama light… you can count on the fact that as a movement we will either go third party, or sit this one out, so you can thank yourselves for another 4 years of Obama, even if your guy wins.
Report Post »DividedWeFail
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:44pmI wish EVERYONE on Fox Business would STOP saying that “even if we cut out that program, it would be a drop in the bucket” so we need to gut entitlements.
While I think FORCING someone to buy into social security, medicare etc. is un-constituional, IF we do have it and there is a SHORT FALL, then EVERY CUTTING OUT EVERY CRAP PROGRAM from $1.00 to $1000.00 to $100,000 to $1 million dollars PLUS – it ALL ADDS UP TO TRILLIONS SAVED.
Eric Canter has voters VOTE ON which BOGUS program to cut next on the house floor. Voters can even suggest programs to be placed on the list.
WHY DOESN”T THE HOUSE AND SENATE RIGHT NOW, VOTE UP OR DOWN on every program listed on the YOU CUT sight and STOP FUNIDING anything that is NOT in the Constitution?
Report Post »http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/
bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:57pmNO we do not need to gut entitlements, because those of us who worked hard and paid into both Medicare and SS are Entitled to those benefits. SS pays for itself. We need to cut, not gut, the military budget, and gut oil subsidies. Make the 1% pay their fair share.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:08pmWHY DOESN”T THE HOUSE AND SENATE RIGHT NOW, VOTE UP OR DOWN on every program listed on the YOU CUT sight and STOP FUNIDING anything that is NOT in the Constitution?
Because our government doesn’t govern within the bounds of the constitution,they‘ve expanded government so much and over time convinced the populace we have a ’right‘ to a house a car a job and ’free’ health care,people are so dense they actually believe we have those ‘rights’.
Our republics days are numbered because this government and the next will continue to spend until China decides to stop lending to us,when that happens America as we know it will cease to exist.
Report Post »Technically we can’t default but the fed will continue printing worthless currency,hyperinflation will start and depression 2.0 begins followed by civil unrest.If the Marxist is in power a brutal crackdown will begin to maintain the power of the state over the populace.
progressiveslayer
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:11pm@BERNBART That’s right the 1% aren’t paying their fair share,they‘re paying way to much and that isn’t fair.Something else that isn’t fair,approximately half of the country doesn’t pay federal income tax.
Report Post »portague
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:16pmentitlements are not paid for the money you put in is for someone elses not yours. They say its for you but your paying for some one else on the dole. They do not coolect enough to pay for those on it or future enrollees.
look at the numbers
monthly average 1100
yearly 13200
time collecting around 15yrs 198000
7.7% tax rat on 108,000 = 8316
to get out what you pay in you would have to work 23years making 108,000 for 15 yrs of benifit the majority do not pay in that kind of money. Keep in mind that the money does not exist in ssi anyways because a bond is an iou not money. That the bond return rate or interst earned has to be collected through taxes the government does not have money nor does it make actual money they take it from us.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:16pmYes we do need to reform entitlements. If you receive SS and medicare then great your good no changes and you will get small cost of living raises annually. The entitlements that need to be reformed are those that are unsustainable. SSI disablity, Medicaid, all of the above wasteful depts. etc etc etc etc etc. People like Bernbart get to die with all that was promised. People that are younger are going to have to pay what they get. Bernbart wants to learn, teach him or her to fish, so she can learn how insane it would be to vote for Oblamer.
Report Post »santababy52
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:38amTo Bernbart: maybe this can explain to you on a level you would understand how unfair the current tax system is for the top 1% who “are not paying their fair share”.
Report Post »http://doc.cat-v.org/economics/bar_stool_economics
term limits for congress
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:44pmsickening
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:43pmUnbelievable…Crooked politicians at work!
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:42pmOnce again Blaze takes information and twists it to fit their divisive agenda. There is nothing unauthorized at all by about any of this, and you notice the budgets have been approved and expire the end of 2012. Budgets that are approved by House, then the and Senate . The only reason thye have the Approved stop /gap budget is because the House of Representatives under the leaderships of the republicans can’t get anything done on time, or refused to do their work. Time to fire the obstructionist Tea Party republicans!
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:50pm@bernbart aka encinom
Report Post »If the Blaze twists the information, then show proof, otherwise, crawl back into momma’s basement, and look at all your porn……
portague
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:01pmnice job ignoring the fact that the no budget started under pelosi when she was incharge. Also fact that the house has passed a budget(whether you agree with it or not is different matter). The senate refusses to even bring it to the florr for discussion. So nice try shifting the blame and ignoring the facts.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:01pmthe senate hasnt approved a budget in over 1000 days THAT IS WHY THEY ARE USING ” CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS
IN A NORMAL, APPROVED BUDGET, CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS DONT EXIST
your just plain stu.pid
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:02pm@ BurnedButt
Report Post »Time to fire every single one actually. DHS gets all that and then some and the border is wide open.
TRILO
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:04pmGovernments only have yearly budgets, not multi year budgets. Congress has not had an approved budget for three years. I read a news story a couple of weeks ago that said it has been 1000 days since the last approved budget. The first two years when the Democrats had control they did not even submit a budget for approval. The republicans have tried but have failed to get a budget to move forward. Politicians have increased many department budgets by attaching amendments to other bills such as National Security bills, Agriculture bills, etc. Our government has been operating on continuing resolutions for three years now. Heck, the last Omnibus spending bill approved over a Trillion in government funding.
All our politicians in Washington know how to do is spend, spend, spend and print $$$ into infinity.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:25pm@Bernbart If you are a grand mammy, then you need to learn that you are wrong about what your spouting. I’m not always right, but you are always wrong, because you think that it’s all the Republicans fault. The faults lies in the following peoples hands. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Oblamer, McCain, Durbin, Schumer, etc….All of the following disasters are senators except Pelosi.
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 6:02pmThe word “unauthorized” is not the Blaze’s, it‘s the CBO’s.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:41pm30 lbs of Cocaine was shipped to a contact at the UN. The Balls of Mexican Cartels to do that… That‘s the kind of balls the wasted gov’t dictator has… Oblamer has the balls to say that the State of Our Nation is Strong. Everything he touches goes to Pot or Cocaine etc.
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:47pm@Doomytram
Report Post »Its final destination was 1600 Pennsylvania ave. Some moron screwed up……
gemmeri
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:36pmSomeone needs to audit these expenditures in a really big overdue way. Seems like most could be trimmed or eradicated. Salmon Treaty? Do the fish feel threatened? Do we need to kill all the brown snakes? I thought they were basically harmless. Sounds like St. Patrick’s vendetta against the snakes of Ireland all over again. Can you people say ‘rats’. How about ‘bubonic plague’. Snakes are good things. Noxious Weed Eradication? Who gets to decide which ones are worst? What happened to hoes? Or just pulling them out by the roots after a good hard rain. What are we talking here-Venus Fly Traps? Can’t get near them? This government definitely has some spending problems. Think compulsive spenders & unnecessary expenditures. If it can be done by other means & people, then it shouldn’t be funded by government. Put the welfares to work pulling weeds if we have to find something for them to do. Even mentally challenged people can pull weeds. Infertility a government concern? I think not. The Centers For Disease Control should be concerned with deadly diseases & plagues that threaten large groups of people. This list is enough for me to want to fire the whole bunch & start over.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:44pmBudget are the job of the House of Represenativess whuch has done little since republicans took over in 2010.
Report Post »gemmeri
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:49pmRealistically, I think these operations should be suspended until further notice & all legislative salaries put on hold until these issues are resolved & most of these expenditures need to cease immediately. I am sure there are some legitimate programs listed that need to be considered, but if our government can’t do any better than this, they need to serve without pay. At least for a while, because it looks to me as if they have been getting paid when they haven’t been doing their jobs & for quite some time now. Their salaries need to be cut first & their benefits need to go away until they get the budget in order. No funds, know how. Jerks & thieves.
Report Post »SANE_I think
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:02pmBERNBART, we know that they passed 2 budgets…neither was allowed a vote by the Dems, Harry boy. Just add those 2 to the other 60 things sent to the Senate that Harry buried.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:35pmThe science of Big Government is a failure of nightmarish proportions. The State of Illinois is a much bigger credit risk than Greece. The Dictator wants to spend more and more this year, and get re-elected too. Poverty Pimps that don’t pay taxes like Sharpton and Obama have and will run everyone away from Chicago. Sears is going bye bye….Wisconsin is on the right track, but the Poverty Pimps want to blame the governor for fiscal sanity. Our debt will reach 17 trillion by the end of the year.
Report Post »LeeroyJenkins
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:30pmYou know what I see? A chance to dismantle the machine. If we could take all those appropriations aside from the military out of the budget we are on EASY street….Just cut it all september 30th. 1 bill 1 law…make it strenuous…make the dems in house cringe make the dems in senate CAVE.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:29pmWhat’s wrong with this song http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134749
Report Post »ares338
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:24pmHow about the Federal Feduciary Fund for Finicky *******? Do they fund those too? Our government is spiraling out of control.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:48pmPassing the budget appropriations is the responsibility of the House of Representatives. Since 2010 the ‘do nothing’ republicans have not been doing their job.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:03pm@ bernbart ………………..the house passed a budget . the SENATE did not that is why the government has been using resolutions for over 1000 days
you really really really are stuuuuuuupiiiiiiiiiid
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:02pmBernie,
The president by law is to submit to congress a budget…then congress does it’s thang and the senate which holds the purse strings does their thang.
Obama has violated the constitution on more than one account and not a flipping thing from the MSMs to tell you the truth…Mooooo
The anti-deficiency act applies to not only Federal Contracting Officers but also the three branches of Government…and Obama is doing what he pleases without authorization. Like your child stealing the credit card and exceeding the limit…
Report Post »JustMeHere_01
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:14pm@BERNBART
When you have the Senate Majority Leader such as Sen Harry Reid taking steps to table every bill that the House passes and sends to them then not much can be done. Harry Reid refuses to allow any bill that comes from the Congress to be considered for a vote in the Senate.
There are numerous bills already that Harry Reid tables so that he can blame the Congress for not accompolishing anything and to use in the upcoming election.
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