[net-gold] UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING: The Nation: Blame Both Parties For Shutdown Threat
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- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 08:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :
GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING:
The Nation: Blame Both Parties For Shutdown Threat
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The Nation: Blame Both Parties For Shutdown Threat
April 7, 2011
by Ari Berman
NPR
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/07/135202139/
the-nation-blame-both-parties-for-shutdown-threat
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3ucc6u5
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Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an
Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute.
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InTrade says there's a 52 percent chance there will be a government
shutdown before July. The brinksmanship and theatrics aside, I've long
believed a shutdown would be averted and a budget deal reached for 201112.
Now I'm not so sure. Some in the GOP are eagerly cheering on the prospect
of a shutdown (literally), with the conservative Republican Study
Committee even unveiling a countdown clock on its website (as of this
post, there's two days, ten hours, three minutes and five seconds left).
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A mixture of Republican stubbornness and Democratic timidity has brought
us to this point. Democratic leaders could have passed a budget before the
2010 elections or during the lame-duck Congress, when they held large
Congressional majorities, but by punting on the issue, they empowered the
new House Republican majority, whose number-one issue in the 2010 election
was cutting government spending. In February 2011, House Republicans
passed $60 billion in spending cuts for 2011 by targeting the usual
suspects eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood, preventing the EPA
from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, blocking the implementation of
healthcare reform, cutting off support for NPR, PBS and AmeriCorps. Their
bill looked much more like an effort to defang longtime opponents and
score political points than a responsible attempt to actually balance the
budget or create jobs. Goldman Sachs predicted that the plan would halt
economic growth by 1.5 to 2 percentage points in the coming year, while
Moody's forecast it would cost 700,000 jobs.
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Since then, Congress has twice temporarily kept the government running,
and it looked as if John Boehner and Congressional Democrats had recently
struck a deal to cut $33 billion from the budget for 2011-2012. But
Boehner denied there was any deal, and promptly upped the number to $40
billion in cuts. Every time a deal looks imminent, the GOP raises the
stakes, in the hopes that Democrats will take the bait (a pretty good
assumption, given the deal reached to extend all the Bush tax cuts in
December 2010). And these negotiations have been held in secret, so no one
actually knows what any final deal will entail (how reassuring). Shutdown
or not, the public is unlikely to be happy with the final outcome.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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