democrats are already beating Eric Cantor up over this, they talk about the years of out of control spending before obama was elected. They fail to mention though, that while a republican was president, the congress was controlled by democrats. If you take the time to check the voting records I think they will speak for themselves. Saying that, I am not giving the republicans a pass, they have become nothing more than the democratic party lite. Some of them seem to have learned their lesson recently though. And with more and more conservatives entering races around the country, we have an opportunity to get back on track as a nation. The democrats continue to think we are all to stupid to do a little research on exactly who has been spending money. It's not a huge secret that obama has put us further into debt than we have ever been. And he did it in less than two years. It's also no secret that repiblicans have tried hard to block most of the massive spending programs obama has put into place. It's also no big secret that obama has driven us right to the brink of financial ruin. If we make it through this without a response similar to Greece we will be lucky...
From FoxNews
Fed up with government spending?
Despite being out of power, House Republicans are offering Americans a chance to vote online on what they think should be slashed from the federal budget in a new anti-government spending program called YouCut.
Each week, voters get to choose among five items that House Republicans will then offer on the floor for an up-or-down vote. Republicans will announce the first winning item on Monday.
"What we're saying here is we're going to listen," said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., the No. 2 Republican in the House, who launched the program. "Vote on your priority, and we'll take it to an up-or-down vote on the floor."
"Secondly, it is about trying the change the culture," he told Fox News. "And right now, Speaker Pelosi and the majority in the House have no interest in reducing spending. And we all know that the American people who…are trying to make ends meet at the end of the month and they see Washington on a rampant spending spree. That's what we're trying to change and that's what YouCut's about."
Among the five items this week that Republicans say would save taxpayers millions if cut are the presidential election fund ($260 million in savings over five years), taxpayer subsidized union activities ($600 million in savings over five years), and new non-reformed welfare programs ($2.5 billion in savings a year).
House Democrats fired back in a blast e-mail with their own voting contest dubbed "GOPSpent," in which Americans can vote against Republican initiatives that Democrats say were irresponsible and favored special interests over the middle class.
"Republicans spent a decade failing to defend the middle class, leaving behind a failed economy and a $4.5 trillion deficit," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in the e-mail. "As part of their most recent effort to distract from their sorry record, Republicans launched "YouCut," which would cut less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the federal budget."
The e-mail include links to "trillion dollar tax cuts to millionaires," "big tax breaks for big oil companies," "bridge to nowhere earmarks" that readers can click to vote against.
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