Dems Holding Congress HOSTAGE To Increase Spending

by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: September is going to be an unbelievably busy – and dangerous – month in Washington, which is why last week we asked you to tell us what our top priorities should be. The results were crystal clear: after protecting the Constitution, limiting government spending was your number one concern.

It makes sense. A return to totally uncontrolled federal spending would mean billions more of your tax dollars flowing into every federal agency to cause untold mischief in the economy, our families, and our lives.

So, our new action page is up and we urge you to click RIGHT NOW to demand Congress hold the line on government spending!

Democrats in Congress, led by Harry Reid, are dead-set on shutting down the government if they can’t gut the spending caps in the Budget Control Act, the historic agreement capping discretionary spending that they themselves agreed to and President Obama signed in 2011, and go back to runaway federal spending.

Harry Reid and the Democrats have been open, even boastful about their strategy. With Reid even admitting, “We’re headed for another shutdown.

But even though Reid is demanding a shut down over spending, you can bet the liberal media will try to blame Republicans, strengthening Reid’s hand. We must fight back.

That’s why it’s extremely important for you to take a moment and to take action to demand Congress save the spending caps.

The Budget Control Act is working, dropping government spending as a percentage of GDP from an Obama-stimulus - driven peak of 24.4 percent to a more historically normal – but still too high – 20.3 percent. Now is a time to advance, not retreat, on spending restraint because rapidly growing entitlements are set to swamp this improvement in discretionary spending.

We can’t believe that Democrats want to shut down the government if they can’t spend more money than they themselves agreed to on the EPA, the IRS, HHS, and all the rest of the vast, wasteful federal bureaucracies. They cannot be allowed to succeed.

One last time, please click here and demand that Congress make the right decision, keep their word, and keep the Budget Control Act’s spending caps in place.

We look forward to having you on our side this month during a lot of important fights and we hope that together we can keep making a difference on the issues you find truly important.
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment. Follow him at (@kerpen) and on Facebook. He is a contributing author at the ARRA News Service.

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