New Budget Agreement

Finally, after sixteen days of stalemate between the Democrats and Republicans over the nation’s budget and debt ceiling problems, they all have agreed to a deal that will only solve these problems temporarily. According to FOX News, the new budget deal only last until early 2014 and the debt ceiling will run out a few weeks after that. Even though this last-minute deal was struck between the two sides the problem is not going disappear overnight.

 

The deal that President Obama signed yesterday funds the government until January 15th and the he rose the debt ceiling until February 7^th. After these dates, who knows what might happen. With the Republicans and Democrats never being able to agree on simple American issues they might never be able to agree on the terms for our national budget. This is becoming an annual problem that seems like it will never end and sadly the fighting will probably never stop between these two very different sides. The Republicans slammed Obama over the government shutdown because they said he refused to negotiate any issues.

 

This deal was just agreed to on Wednesday and it all seems like everything is solved and everything is working again, right? Wrong! Yes, it does open back up the government and thousands of people can go back to work, but the damage is already done. Also, President Obama said that there, “were no winners” from the budget argument and that the “spectacle” hurt the United States economy and credibility (FOX News). This deal pretty much stalls this entire process and we will probably be in the same situation here in January of 2014. This entire government shutdown happened only for them to “compromise”, I guess you could say, and just push back the problem even farther. So again we could be hearing about this in a couple months and Congress might not make any progress in between now and when the debt ceiling and budget runs out.

 

Obama mostly got what he wanted. His Obama Care bill passed and I guess you could say that the Democrats won the argument of who got what. In my eyes, the Republicans were the ones to pull their big boy pants up and get the deal done. With no major compromise between the two sides the Republicans finally gave in and gave the Democrats what they were “whining” for in the first place. If they hadn’t done this we would still be in that crisis and who knows when this entire thing would’ve ended. But up until January and February we can all take a deep breath and relax, but not for long because all of this could happen and we would all have a Déjà vu of what happened this time. And sadly, nobody can see the end of this road of fighting and arguments. I think that nothing will get done until we vote in some people who will actually get the job done and not just sit around and wait for one side to cave.