So the liberal spin is that the Republicans are going to cause a government shut down. Hmm... The budget Obama wants to pass will put this country $4.5 BILLION further into debt every day. Not $4.5B in total spending per day, $4.5B IN DEFICIT SPENDING PER DAY. I don't care how much you tax the rich... that is unsustainable. The Dems should have been passed THIS budget LAST year. They are Constitutionally mandated to do so, but they didn't.
There was no way they could have done that during an election year. The country would have seen their spending plans and they would have lost the Senate, too. But how easy would it have been for them to do so when they owned both houses and the oval office? Yet this is somehow the Republicans' fault?
There was no way they could have done that during an election year. The country would have seen their spending plans and they would have lost the Senate, too. But how easy would it have been for them to do so when they owned both houses and the oval office? Yet this is somehow the Republicans' fault?
The House sent the proposed budget to the Senate over 40 days ago. Since then Harry Reid allowed a recess. The Democrats want to make it sound like they are “trying” to reach a compromise, but for a long time they were unwilling to budge from their offer to cut $6 billion. $6B out of $3.7 Trillion! Does that sound like someone who is legitimately trying to curb spending? Now they are willing to cut $33B... that's still less than a .9% cut. They claim this is a compromise because the Republicans want to cut $66B. Not so much guys... the Republicans originally wanted to cut well over $100B. You don't wait for them to offer a compromise amount and THEN offer to meet them half way.
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Of course the libs are counting on the press to put up a smoke screen to protect them, which is a safe bet since CNN has a countdown running in the corner of the screen while they play soundbites from every Democrat expounding on the draconian and evil Republicans who want to starve grandparents, close schools and make millions of the poor die in the streets from infected paper-cuts. (Fear mongers) The fact is that the shutdown will be a slowdown. Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, the military and the rest of the crucial infrastructure will all continue unabated. On a bright note, the IRS will suspend audits. This “shutdown” will only effect the 15% of federal employees denoted as non-essential. My question would be, if they're not essential, why are we paying them!? Think about it! Over 1 in 8 federal employees are “non-essential”! Regardless, even if they do ask these foundations of American freedom to stay home for a few days, they'll get their back pay down the road. I say shut it down. It's the Democrat's fault for blowing it off when they were supposed to do it LAST year.
Random thought... President Obama left the door open today to Boehner and Reid for a follow-up to yesterday's oval office session, but then left town to do three campaign fund raisers in New York. Gotta have your priorities...
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I'm all for letting the Government shut down. Will it really matter if it does? I can't understand why we as a Nation continue to spend ourselves deeper and deeper into debt. Eventually the far east mortage holders are going to come looking to foreclose on this entire Nation...
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ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, myself and my fellow brothers and sisters in uniform will continue to go to work, and war, defending your constitutional right to agree with Gov't shutting down and us not getting paid.
LOL, Chief Ken, meet Senior Chief Joe. We'll still get paid Ken. Like I said in the blog this "shutdown" is a farce being blown out of proportion by the Dems to try to scare the G.O.P. into backing down.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Joe. We need to shut it down. If nothing else it will give us a glimpse at what we really do and don't need. I'm fairly certain at this juncture there is MUCH more that falls into the second category.
Sorry Brothers... I have ran across people (in person) completely dead set against what we do as a career. I did a live version of what I typed above. My wife and I have our emergency fund, I'm just concerned for our younger sailors. You know how it is.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how seniors view their voting decisions of last year. Republican/Tea Party candidates scared them into believing that unless they defeated Dems & sought to repeal health care reform they would lose Medicare benefits. Now a Republic-proposed budget wd lower the tax rate for the most wealthy Americans and slash Medicare by $368B (as a record number of Americans age into the system). SocSec would also be frozen for another year. (Note, I don't see anything in the budget that would reduce health benefits for members of Congress!)
ReplyDeleteEconomists est. trillion in bad debt over the next decade if health care reform is repealed. If people can't pay for their health care or get insurance, who gets stuck with the tab? Oh, yeah. Us!!
Paul Ryan (R-WI) proposes a budget that will all but end Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security while also ending investment and corporate income tax. Interesting that corporations want to be treated as "persons" for the purpose of making campaign contributions but not for the purpose of paying income taxes.
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ReplyDeleteAre you sure those poor seniors weren't scared by the Democrats who have portrayed the right as butchers of the geriatric for years? Regardless Obama-care IS hurting Medicare. Prophesy fulfilled.
You can poke at Ryan's proposal all you want... it saves money. If you're 55 or older (Edna) it will NOT change medicare for you. His plan eradicates duplicitous government agencies. It cuts federal employees by 10% through attrition... no pink slips. Medicaid is turned over to the states to customize it to fit their populace. Not sure where you got your info, but it sounds like it was filtered through MSLSD er... I mean MSNBC.
“If people can't pay for their health care or get insurance, who gets stuck with the tab? Oh, yeah. Us!!” And that's different from Obama-care how?
Economists estimate $1 trillion in bad debt if HCR is repealed? I estimate $2 trillion if it isn't!
By the way, it's not an issue of raising revenue. It's an issue of controlling spending. The government (both sides of the aisle) are spending too much money... period. The only way to fix that is to spend less. I'm not sure why anyone would trust Washington to run our health care when they already spent all of the retirement money we entrusted them with. If we want to get out of this hole then taxes need to be applied in a manner that encourages economic growth.
And as far as taxes go... corporations are the only entities that can be triple taxed, and are regularly double taxed. I might be swayed if all of these liberal philanthropists who are going to leave half of their estates to the government did two things... 1) do it now, and 2) why only half? I know a lot of folks who agree with you that make WAY more than the national average, but I don't see them donating that “surplus” for the greater good. The fact someone is wealthier than someone else does not make them responsible for the other person. Personal choice, personal drive, personal consequence... and the harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Interesting post. Until either/both sides get serious about scaling back defense/terror industry spending (and our military footprint around the globe), I won't consider either side as serious about getting spending under control. Keep in mind, both sides are beholden to corporate money, so the whole shutdown will be a show for the public, while the corporations get exactly what they want, ala the health care bill. BTW, I'm fine with tweaking Social Security to make it more solvent, such as raising the age to 67 (life expectancy in 1935 was 65 years) and raising the caps for collecting SS. Medicare is a bigger problem that needs fixing, but I would never vote for someone that advocates getting rid of those programs, or privatizing them. Mike in Chicago
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