The Angry White Guy

First I’m sick of listing to these whiny ass liberals and some conservatives moaning and groaning unemployment insurance payments and how Jim Bunning is evil… no Bunning is following the law put in place by Obama…

UPDATE: Let me remind you for Obama weekly address on the White House blog site…
Weekly Address: President Obama Praises Restoration of Pay-As-You-Go

That is why this rule is necessary.  And that is why I am pleased that Congress fulfilled my request to restore it.  Last night, I signed the “pay as you go” rule into law.  Now, Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody else.

So with that in mind….

1.) Obama and Congress passed PAYGO

The senator who dared believe in ‘paygo’ (NOTE: This is a San Fransisco Chronicle – YES I know I was shocked too!)

In January, the Senate joined the House in passing “pay-as-you-go” rules to require Congress to pay for new discretionary spending. On Feb. 12, President Obama signed the bill. “Now Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody else,” Obama crowed.

2.) This bill was $10 billion unfunded spending violating PAYGO

3.)  If they pass this bill -  it would violated PAYGO which the Democrat never intended in following in the first place.

I used to like the concept, and remember arguing with Brian Riedl of the libertarian-leaning Heritage Foundation. But he was right. As he said Monday, “Paygo exists as a talking point in order to create the illusion of fiscal responsibility while they’re ignoring it. It’s designed for TV ads.”

4.) Bunning was making Obama and the Democrat actually keep their word regarding PAYGO

Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., blocked Senate passage of a bill to extend for one month unemployment and Cobra health insurance benefits, and other spending, because it did not comply with the paygo rule. As the Baseball Hall of Famer explained, “When 100 senators are for a bill, and we can’t find $10 billion to pay for it, there’s something the matter, seriously the matter, with this body.” For that, he is Satan.

5.) The Democrats were fine with breaking their word and Bunning held their feet to the fire on PAYGO

A month ago, Democrats were suggesting the Repubs were phony tightwads for not joining them in support of paygo. It turns out, paygo is the phony. Two weeks after it became law, the Senate passed a $15 billion jobs bill exempt from paygo. Now Bunning is not budging. As spokesman Mike Reynard put it, “If everyone’s serious about paygo, let’s act like it.”

6.) It’s simple the law says as passed by congress and signed by Obama – you pay as you go, if you can’t pay then you don’t spend and if you spend cut funding elsewhere… not a complicated concept.

It’s a heartbreaking scenario – but it can be avoided if Capitol Hill leaders either find the $10 billion in a government that spends $3.8 trillion annually or the 60 votes needed to bring the bill to the Senate floor.

7.) Obama is blaming Bunning for the layoff of 2000 Federal workers – Obama made no mention of the 100,000 plus new worker hired in 2009 not inclusive of the temporary Census workers and since Bunning is making Obama live up to the rhetoric he spewed in the SOTU – it’s ironic that Obama now cries foul.

Less than a month later, Obama and fellow Democrats are busily demonizing a lone senator for pushing Washington to spend responsibly. It seems this administration is all for fiscal restraint – as long as you don’t mean it.

8.) Put me in the White House and I’ll lay off 50% non-defense federal workers and I wouldn’t think twice about it.

9.) The long you extend unemployment the less likely it is for those on it to seek work.

10.) I’m sorry these folks are not getting their unemployment, but the reality is we have to pay for it and since the tax payer is paying as the employer contribution has long ran out. If congress wants to spend money in unemployment then cut some spending somewhere else – it’s that damn simple. I’d suggest they could start with congressional perks and staff.

UPDATE: Here is the deal these little weasel whiny Republicans in congress should be behind Bunning and not condemning him and since Bunning isn’t running again he can make the President stick to his words of PAYGO and if we had TERM LIMITS more congressmen would be free to do what’s right and not what’s politically expedient and that’s the problem that will not stop giving out handouts then creating jobs where people don’t need unemployment insurance.

Administration Blames Bunning’s ‘Political Games’ for Furlough of 2,000 Workers

Note this lame ass APObama article makes no mention of PAYGO
And Senator Jim Bunning Just Canceled Pay For 2,000 Furloughed Transportation Workers
Sen. Bunning and the unemployment benefits debate revisited
Is Bunning conducting a filibuster?

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