Vote on Debt Limit increase?

[Riot]

Please see the information I posted, above. And take the wars out of your spending figures, only "regular spending" here, please, as I stated in my post (hint - it has gone down markedly starting the first year Obama was in office)

If you want to get rid of waste, seems like Obama's the one you want (btw, he also found a few billion in duplicate Medicare payment waste that will now go to paying for the PPACA, which is entirely self-funding (zero net budget increase)

For example:

2009 & 2010: Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/0...g-cuts-pledge/
Obama Administration Makes Good on Spending Cuts Pledge
It may be a drop in the $2 trillion deficit bucket, but the federal government has made good on President Barack Obama’s promise to find $100 million in spending cuts this year.

Under presidential marching orders, cabinet secretaries actually produced $102 million in cuts for the current fiscal year and another $140 million for fiscal year 2010, which begins in October. The White House budget office released the details Monday night.

Some of the cuts appear to be a significant sacrifice. The Department of Labor has proposed disbanding the nearly 40-year-old Employment Standards Administration, the department’s largest agency, eliminating an assistant secretary of labor and two deputy assistant secretaries at a savings of $1.75 million through 2010. Cabinet secretaries are usually loathe to make such cuts on their own.

Other cuts fall into the category of “They did what?” The U.S. Forest Service will save $1.8 million this year by ceasing to re-paint vehicles as soon as they are purchased – probably a good idea. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services canceled a meeting in Australia, saving $36,000. The Bureau of Reclamation’s Pacific Northwest office will get rid of its airplane for a quick $845,000.

Etc.

I spent my whole life wanting fiscal conservatism and reasoned social responsibility from my government. I spent decades voting Republican under the grossly mistaken impression that's what they stand for, and what they would do for the country. History shows I was wrong. The GOP is a fiscal disaster for us. No more. They brought us to the brink of collapse, yet they still want to keep repeating their Reaganomics mistakes.