Political Quotes

“I would just like to briefly carry on the discussion of how much power has been transferred from Congress to the President. Article I, section 9 of the Constitution says that Congress shall control the purse strings. Article 1 of section VII of the Constitution says that Congress shall decide how deep we go into debt. I bring this chart to portray the authority and responsibility that Congress has now given away to the President of the United States. This pie chart represents the Federal budget for this coming year. The blue area represents the 52 percent of spending now in these welfare entitlement programs. The spending in those programs cannot be changed without the consent of the President. It has been demonstrated now that also the administration has the authority to go deeper in debt without the consent of Congress. Transferring even greater power to the administrative branch, to the President, by saying that he will have the authority to line out, to veto anything in an appropriation bill, is a tremendous transfer of power.”