No - my understanding of the CR is fine. Shutdowns happen because Dems refuse to produce a real budget. When there is no budget "baseline spending" kicks in. Gov gets to spend according to previous budgets. When Obama got the "stimulus" (that WSJ found only 22% stimulating - the rest was pork) in 2009 it became part of the budget.
Right, so you just admitted you have no idea what you're talking about.
1. Budgets are nonbinding documents that frequently have nothing to do with the appropriations bills that are passed. If you're talking about appropriations bills, they do not require a budget to be created by anyone in order to be passed.
2. When appropriations are not passed 'baseline spending' does not kick in and the government most certainly does not get to spend according to previous budgets. This is a basic lack of understanding of how government works.
3. If you're talking about mandatory spending that continues then there's no point in bringing up appropriations bills anyway, as mandatory spending doesn't rely on them. (or budget documents) Hence the name.
Then Obama intentionally created ridiculous budgets (by law he has to create a budget) that got voted down unanimously. When there are no budgets passed - no passed appropriations bills - we get these ridiculous "continuing resolutions" that Dems and MSM portray as national emergencies without really explaining how they came to be in the first place.
Continuing resolutions are nothing more than appropriations bills by another name. Saying no appropriations bills are passed so we get a continuing resolution (which is an appropriations bill) is bizarre. Your insane conspiracy theories about Obama and the media are noted though.
The continuing resolutions have used baseline spending so that Obama's "one time" porkulous has been a continuing budget suck:
This is another fundamental lack of understanding about the ARRA. Stimulus spending was not only a good portion tax cuts, but it doesn't all somehow get added into baseline budgeting.
Wall St Journal in 2012:
"Most of the $830 billion stimulus of 2009 has now become part of the federal budget baseline. The "emergency" spending of the stimulus has now become permanent, as we predicted it would."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323894704578113033115035920
Its no accident Obama has been presided over 5 of 6 biggest deficits in history.
That's interesting, considering that real per capita spending has been declining for years now. Shocker that yet again the WSJ is clueless, and that you believed them.
Also, what you're saying about deficits is only true if you fail to adjust for % of GDP, which makes absolutely no sense.
I strongly suggest you go learn more about the appropriations process, the difference between mandatory and discretionary spending and how appropriations bills fit in there, the role of budgets in these matters, and hopefully stop getting bad info from the folks at the WSJ.
Again, you seem to be getting a lot of really bad information from somewhere, probably all the ultra-right wing websites that you read. Don't be so easily duped.
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