It’s really no surprise that the so-called supercommittee has failed to accomplish anything. After all, the members were selected from a group that has made a practice for years of budget failures. When Nancy Pelosi ran the House they made no attempt to budget, simply passing “continuing resolutions” in lieu of a workable budget.
The president’s original Simpson Bowles panel, which did come up with a bipartisan plan to bring the nation back to a sustainable means of deficit reduction, was totally ignored by both the president and the Congress. Some of us are old enough to remember when this country used a fiscal year that ran from July 1 to June 30; worked fine for years, even during war time. But then in 1975 our Congress determined they needed more time to work out these tough budget issues. Those of us who were working on military contracts had to develop new estimates for the three-month FY-T76 for each of those contracts. So the fiscal year is now Oct. 1 Sept. 30. Sure didn’t cure anything.
Anyone out there ever had a job that you could continually fail to perform and still draw a paycheck for years?
Frank Leathley
Mill Creek
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