Terry Paulson  Have you ever wondered how President Obama's
budget can be unanimously defeated by both the House (414-0) and
the Senate (97-0) and how the U.S. Senate can go three years
without submitting or passing a single budget and yet government
spending keeps exploding and the federal debt keeps growing? How
can Rep. Paul Ryan's House budget be "radical," "social
Darwinism" when it actually increases both government spending
and our debt?  Since 1974, our spending nightmare has been
fueled by a process that sounds responsible--baseline budgeting.
It's a political ruse that victimizes taxpayers and gives
Congressional free-spenders a way of never having to even pass a
budget. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) uses the "current
services baseline" and automatically increases the budgets of
existing federal agencies every year even if Congress and the
Senate do nothing. Then politicians can campaign on "cuts" when
all they're risking is increasing spending at a somewhat smaller
rate.  Before 1974, every