Chief Justice Prods Congress to Resolve Budget Talks and Control National Debt
Source: NYT
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. used his year-end report on the federal judiciary to give Congressional budget negotiators a little nudge.
Our country faces new challenges, including the much-publicized fiscal cliff and the longer-term problem of a truly extravagant and burgeoning national debt, he wrote. No one seriously doubts that the countrys fiscal ledger has gone awry. The public properly looks to its elected officials to craft a solution.
The chief justice said that his branch of the government provided an example of doing much with few resources. The federal judiciary makes do with a budget appropriation of about $7 billion, he wrote, a mere two-tenths of 1 percent of the United States total budget of $3.7 trillion.
Yes, he went on, for each citizens tax dollar, only two-tenths of one penny goes toward funding the entire third branch of government!
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/us/chief-justice-roberts-prods-congress-on-fiscal-matters.html
would anyone care what this corporate stooge says.
Ter
(4,281 posts)I'm still shocked how he voted.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)doesn't know his own boundaries which do NOT include
budgetary matters of the legislative and executive branches
of the United States Federal Government.
John2
(2,730 posts)he any way?
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)Not old enough.
JudyM
(29,274 posts)big whoop about how small a fraction of the government's budget they get, there are only 9 of them and some staff.
he needs him when he shills for the corporations.