"Tea Party Budget" - The People's Plan For Debt Reduction

[WhiskeyGirl]

The Senate Rules Committee reportedly blocked the Tea Party Debt Commission from unveiling its budget proposal at the Capitol Thursday, with staff members removing microphones and locking doors to the room where the group was set to present its findings.

FreedomWorks, the organization that organized the “months-long, crowd-sourced effort” among Tea Party members to develop a budget proposal, said in a release that the scheduled, pre-approved informal hearing was suddenly canceled. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) chairs the committee. Participants relocated to Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, a few blocks from the Capitol.

read more here - http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senate-rules-committee-blocks-tea-party-debt-commission-from-presenting-budget-proposal/

Instead, we offer a bold — but, we believe, feasible — plan that:
 
“Cuts, caps, and balances” federal spending.
 
Balances the budget in four years, and keeps it balanced, without tax hikes.
 
Closes an historically large budget gap, equal to almost one-tenth of our economy.
 
Reduces federal spending by $9.7 trillion over the next 10 years, as opposed to the President’splan to increase spending by $2.3 trillion.
 
Shrinks the federal government from 24 percent of GDP — a level exceeded only in World War II— to about 16 percent, in line with the postwar norm.
 
Stops the growth of the debt, and begins paying it down, with a goal of eliminating it within this generation. To achieve these goals, our plan, among other things:
 
Repeals ObamaCare in toto.
 
Eliminates four Cabinet agencies — Energy, Education, Commerce, and HUD — and reduces orprivatizes many others, including EPA, TSA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.
 
Ends farm subsidies, government student loans, and foreign aid to countries that don’t support us— luxuries we can no longer afford.
 
Saves Social Security and greatly improves future benefits by shifting ownership and control from government to individuals, through new SMART Accounts.
 
Gives Medicare seniors the right to opt into the Congressional health care plan.
 
Suspends pension contributions and COLAs for Members of Congress, whenever the budget is in deficit.

Freedom Works site - http://www.freedomworks.org/the-tea-party-budget

PDF of plan available at site...

[TnMuse]

The Senate Rules Committee reportedly blocked the Tea Party Debt Commission from unveiling its budget proposal at the Capitol Thursday, with staff members removing microphones and locking doors to the room where the group was set to present its findings.

FreedomWorks, the organization that organized the “months-long, crowd-sourced effort” among Tea Party members to develop a budget proposal, said in a release that the scheduled, pre-approved informal hearing was suddenly canceled. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) chairs the committee. Participants relocated to Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, a few blocks from the Capitol.

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BBM  Does this mean they waited until they arrived at the meeting to say it was cancelled?  What happened to common courtesy?  Who do these people in Congress represent?   Man, we need to clean out Washington!

[TnMuse]

Guess that is what they did....

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/18/senate-rules-committee-freezes-out-tea-party-debt-commission-hearing/
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Instead, after prior approval, and with essentially no notice given, the Senate Rules Committee, chaired by Chuck Schumer (D-NY), blocked access to the hearing room
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Quoting from the linked FreedomWorks press release:

“The Senate hasn’t been able to pass a budget resolution three years running. They have been unable to do their job, and now the Rules Committee is trying to prevent the American people from doing it for them,” said Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks

“The Senate has refused to let the American people know what the highly secretive budget ‘Super Committee’ is doing behind closed doors,” Kibbe added. “We’ve come to Washington with the real solutions developed by the American people, and the Rules Committee won’t let their voices be heard in an open forum. It’s outrageous. They’re kicking us out of our own building because they’re afraid we are going to do something crazy like balance the budget.”

Seems like our representatives don't take the public seriously.