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They’re downvoting you (I’m guessing) because you fundamentally don’t understand how the budgeting process works. You can believe in cutting spending, sure - th
by czzr 3y ago
They’re downvoting you (I’m guessing) because you fundamentally don’t understand how the budgeting process works. You can believe in cutting spending, sure - this is not the mechanism to do it.
Here’s a rough analogy - you can decide at the start of the month not to buy a gym membership to save money, however you cannot sign a contract for the gym and then decide at the end of the month not to pay it to save money, and further, when the gym come to collect you threaten to shoot yourself in the foot unless the gym tears up your contract. (This last part is exactly as dumb as the Republicans threat).
- bequanna 3y agoYou don’t have to like your opponent’s strategy, but you also don’t get to decide whether or not they use it. The goal is to cancel BS “inflation reduction act” spending that was approved prior to the House having a Replublican majority. This is their chance to do this. And considering the threat “dumb” is naive. There are just as many scorched earth conservatives as liberals.
- UncleMeat 3y agoI downvoted because of “freebies”, not because of a misunderstanding of budgets.
- Rury 3y agoThe government's budget process is not unique in any fundamental way. It's only different because it's political and has many different people's interests in the matter. Otherwise it obeys the same principles as a personal budget. Nothing prevents you from over budgeting your income and borrowing to the max, and then when your income is gone and have no money left to pay your bills or creditors, to ask for an extension of credit. Your analogy is toothless, given the principles behind that scenario happens every day in the credit industry.