Reconciliation, originally designed in the 1974 Budget Act as a means for helping the government save money and keep federal budgets closer to balance, allows for certain legislation to pass both houses of Congress on an expedited basis — and perhaps most importantly, to pass the Senate with a bare majority.
Fast Forward to 2009 we now have The Democrats in Congress and President Obama trying to use this or rather they are going to use this to cram socialized medicine down out throats. But wait it gets much worse, how are they going to pay for this? Cap-n-Trade. Something that you may have heard about. I will sum that up in just a few words as possible. Anything that use’s energy, your car, house, boat, etc……you will see that billed doubled at the least some say tripled. Hold on that’s not the end of it, any consumable’s you buy, will also have a price increase after all the store that you buy these things from is also going to have an increase in energy cost, as well as the trucking company’s that deliver these goods. Let’s not forget about dining out, once again same deal, Restaurant will have to pass the new energy cost to you.
“We’ve seen mission creep with reconciliation under both Republicans and Democrats — there’s no question about that,” said Ryan. “But this takes mission creep to a whole new level. Now they’re talking about the possible nationalization of 17 percent of our economy in health care, 8 percent of the economy in energy, and the largest tax increase in history — all through a process which will have between 35 and 105 total hours of debate between the House and the Senate . . . That’s an enormous power grab.”
David Freddoso from NRO blog has a great post about this, that has a lot more information then I do.
