Senator Johnny Isakson called the Obama budget proposal for 2013 a “budget for failure,” saying the president’s plan keeps the federal government on a path of reckless spending and unsustainable debt. “The president claims his plan will reduce the deficit by almost $4 trillion over the next 10 years, but his proposal relies on a…

Congress uses gimmicks in the federal budget to fool the public.  Congress labels ordinary expenses as “emergency” spending, overstates project costs then shifts the excess elsewhere, increases federal salaries after promising pay freezes, and shifts expenditure dates in order to claim money savings or offsets. In a statement released October 2011, Sen. Olympia Snowe, (R-ME),…