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The Cynical Budget Game
Making Sense
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I get it.I understand Obamacare is a total crock.I know it’s going to make our current health care system even more expensive, more complicated, more irrational and more socialized than it already is.I know it’s something that needs to be repealed, delayed, defunded, shredded, stomped or killed forever by any legislative means necessary.But if I were Ted Cruz, or anyone else who is willing to shut down the government to deny funding for Obamacare, I wouldn’t use the issue of raising the debt ceiling to get the American people engaged.I’d use an issue that every American can relate to and should be outraged about -- the failure of the United States Senate to pass a budget since 2007.It’s hard to believe, but America hasn’t had a budget since Obama took over the White House and Harry Reid took over the Senate.Why aren’t Republicans using this ongoing travesty as a weapon in their seemingly hopeless congressional fight to defund Obamacare?Every American understands what a budget is. Every family has to have one. Why not the country?