For many years, Congress always said that the President's
budget was "dead on arrival" because they never followed it.

The mandate is that all tax bills must begin in the House,
the President is supposed to submit a proposed budget and
the Senate confirms appointments and treaties.

One of the charges against R.M. Nixon was that he refused to
spend all the money that Congress appropriated, he exercised
administrative powers. So as part of the post-Watergate
"reforms" Congress wrote the law on the budget and President
Ford, a long term member of Congress signed it into law.
The change in the budget process exactly coincides with the
run-away national debt and increasing deficit spending. The
change, all budget items are expected to increase 10% per
year so 110% become the base amount. This is baseline
budgeting.

Also, the President is REQUIRED by law to spend every dime
Congress appropriates, he has only one administrative power,
he can veto a bill. This failure of George Bush, and his
signing of McCain-Fiengold, may be his worst failures as
President.

Look at the books that have graphs of the Federal debt and
note that the debt was level from the end of WWII to the
Viet Nam war, with just spikes, but after Watergate the
budget, debt and spending went nearly straight up.


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"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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| Bob Noel wrote:
| In article YEGXf.14873$6a1.3816@fed1read04, Sam Spade

| wrote:
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| King George has expanded federal spending and the
deficient beyond the
| wildest dreams of the tax-and-spend lefties.
|
|
| The President doesn't appropriate money. Try to learn
what branch of
| the Federal government does what...
|
| Oh, you mean the Consititutional mandate that Congress
must *approve*
| appropriation bills?
|
| Who submits those appropriations for the most part, and
who provides the
| leadership for discretionary spending?
|
| Again, your sarcasm shows more heat than light.
|
| Congress invaded Iraq?