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2011年4月24日星期日

Reality check: support Union conservative budget?

In an interview with Peter Mansbridge last week, Conservative leader Stephen Harper said is broad support for the budget of his party filed before the election, pointing to an approval by the Congress of the work of the Canada.

"No there was no mystery, there was a lot in this budget, you know, was clearly, were things that the other parties spoke about things that they could have supported," said Harper.

"Canadian Labour Congress said the NDP that they should have supported measures in the budget." I mean, how much more obvious can get you than that? ?

The Tories made the same request after the budget on 22 March, which prompted the CLC to publish an open letter to the Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty.

The letter approximately speaks for itself.

"Minister, one can support some parts of your budget without giving full endorsement," wrote CLC President Ken Georgetti.

"While we have supported certain measures in the budget, we in no way gave unqualified support for the budget as a whole." We are looking for a real timetable for improving the Canada (CPP) pension plan benefits, not vague promises to extend the CPP at a later date. We are certainly opposed to planned tax cuts your Government and expresses our concern from which will come from $ 4 billion per year of planned spending cuts.

"Thinking, as you have been stating in the media, the CLC fully subscribed your budget is misleading and we respectfully request you cease these statements."

Taken Georgetti support to increase the guaranteed income supplement for the elderly, and the extension of one year hosting the renovation plan.


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2011年4月9日星期六

Franken wants a balanced war budget

Franken wants a balanced war BudgetCory Doctorow at 10: 42 am IM Friday, Apr 8, 2011

Senator Al Franken has proposed a "numbers for war" resolution that would require expenditure above authorize new acts of war, American foreign adventure on the national debt can contribute to reduce or increase to control Congress.

"We have that Iraq and Afghanistan anomalies in American history remain," Franks said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "And that is, trying to do my resolution what." It ensures that future wars problem not compound our deficit and debt levels. It will ensure that Congress and American citizens to face the financial sacrifice in the war. "And it forces us to decide whether a war in the value of these victims."

"In the last ten years our wars by borrowing for paid have been," Franks said. "The Iraq war went hand in hand with a massive tax cut." That failed tax experiment requires the impression that war brings no financial victims. We know that is simply not true. "Is the question that the financial sacrifice, bearing generation which has decided to go to war or their children and grandchildren?"

Franc you will be paid to wars (via reddit)


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Legislators reach budget deal U.S.

With less than two hours to spare, the White House and Congressional leaders has reached an agreement in the short term late Friday to cut billions of dollars in spending and avoid a judgment of midnight of the US Government.

The last-minute agreement retains the Government until next Thursday - time course, expect all sides to build a more permanent measure that would keep Federal operations of operation for another six months.

The agreement, which calls for more than 37 billion dollars, in reductions in federal spending to 30 September prevented the first partial closure of the US Government in 15 years. This closure lasted 21 days.

If the transaction had not been reached, have handed over hundreds of thousands of federal workers and services of the national parks of tax-season centres would have been a.

The agreement was possible because "Americans of different beliefs met", President Barack Obama said in a late-night television address.

He said the cuts could be "painful" but said that the White House had managed to protect its priority programs Republicans who wanted larger cuts. But he acknowledged that "the two parties had difficult decisions".

The result, said Obama, was "the largest expenditures annual cut in history."

The key Republican in the talks, Chairman of the House John Boehner, said the budget deal would "reduce spending and let our open government." Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner had said his party wanted big budgetary concessions.<br />Republican Chairman of the House of John Boehner said his party wanted big budgetary concessions. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

"This is historic, what we did", said another key man in the talks, the leader of the majority in the Senate, Democrat Harry Reid.

The House and the Senate have been precipitate in a stopgap Bill until a broader Bill could be finalized.

Hectic negotiations, last minute came after a day in which the Obama and senior officials of the Government were working feverishly behind the scenes to cross a budget impasse - even though they exchanged public barbs blaming each other of the fracture.

The two parties spent the day trying to cobble together an agreement on how to slash federal spending, where cut and what warning to attach in a Bill to fund the Government through the fall. A federal temporary spending measure was created to expire at midnight Friday. This delay had been allowed to come and go, the Government of the United States would have closed all non-essential Federal programs.

The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, led the negotiations for the Democrats.The leader of the majority in the Senate, Harry Reid, led the negotiations for the Democrats. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

For an eager nation of the base of Federal but also tired of bickering Washington spending, spending the showdown had real implications.

Critics said a temporary leave without pay for 800,000 federal workers would have drawbacks of millions of people and damaged a fragile economy.

Both parties will have to meet their own basic if they are perceived to have conceded too much.

Republicans had intended that more important than Democrats spending reductions and had intended that the provisions to cut federal funding for family planning and a stop to the Protection Agency environmental licensing of many pollution control regulations.

In the end, Democrats and the White House succeeded in pushing Republican attempts to limit the scope of the EPA and they were able to divert Republican requirements to deny federal funding of family planning.

But anti-abortion lawmakers have failed to win a provision to prohibit the use of funds from the Federal Government or local pay for abortions in the District of Columbia.

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2011年4月3日星期日

US gov budget crisis could Data.gov transparency project stop; Act now

US gov budget crisis could Data.gov transparency project stop; are 3 NowXeni Jardin at 9: 37 am IM Sunday, Apr, 2011

The Sunlight Foundation: "Data.gov, USASpending.gov, which IT dashboard and other federal data programs are transparency and government accountability a massive budget is cut, despite only a tiny fraction of the national budget." "To save the data and make sure that the Congress let the American people in the dark not." (via Kevin Werbach)


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