Saturday, August 11, 2012 marks 1200 days without a budget. Here’s some sobering facts to join it:
- The last time the Senate passed a budget was on April 29, 2009.
- The Outstanding Public Debt as of 11 Aug 2012 at 12:38:57 AM GMT is: $15,920,131,113,709.46
- The estimated population of the United States is 313,295,427, so each citizen’s share of this debt is $50,815.08
- Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget proposal was defeated this year in the House of Representatives by a vote of 414-0.
- Obama’s FY2012 budget was defeated last year in the Senate, by a vote of 97-0.
- By 2050, the national debt is set to hit 344 percent of Gross Domestic Product.
- By around Election Day, the total debt of the United States will be $16,394,000,000,000.00 ($16.394 trillion).
Last time, we marked the 1000 days without a budget. Now it’s 1200 days. Did you know that Obama’s term as President is officially 1461 days? Almost the entirety of his administration has been operating without a budget.
I hope Mitt Romney will hammer this point home today during his VP rollout.
America needs a little R&R!
Has President Obama *ever* signed a federal budget? We were still operating under one signed by President Bush when Obama was inaugurated; I don’t think he’s ever signed one.
And let’s not forget, for the first two years of his presidency his party also ran both houses of Congress.
The last budget was passed when my favorite (only) daughter was a sophomore in college – now she’s a 2nd year law student. 1200 days indeed.
The members of the House and the Senate deserve all of the scorn, contempt, and abject humiliation that could possibly be heaped upon them.
Tar and Feathers and/or the Pillory, 8th Amendment notwithstanding, are the least these cretins deserve.
That also goes for the SCoaMF.
“The members of the House and the Senate deserve all of the scorn, contempt, and abject humiliation that could possibly be heaped upon them.”
Hey, wait a minute, the repub house passed a budget, they did their job. You may not like their budget but they have one, it passed the house with a big majority, and had significant, although not majority support, in the senate.
If you are passing out scorn, give it to the people who did NOT do their job, Harry Reid’s senate, they are the ones who have never pased a budget in over 3 yrs. You might also reserve some scorn for Obama, whose budgets were so unserious that his own party could not cast a single vote for them.
I love it when Obama talks about a “do nothing congress” when what we actually have is a do nothing senate.