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"Fuck you, Senator....."
"No, fuck you Mr Speaker...."
I've seen more conviction and competence in porn movies. I don't know how this is going to turn out, but it matters not one iota. The government has already lost its moral authority, and a great deal of its authority, period. I don't know if the next election is relevant right now, the dates to watch, (after Aug 2) are the next date with default and April 15, 2012.
How many people are going to pay taxes to this chickenshit outfit? I'm not. What I have has lost half its worth this week, and I expect it to lose most of the rest by that date. What will a government do to somebody that doesn't pay, feed and clothe them?
posted by eccentric recluse at 2:14 PM
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If it weren't so desperate, it would be comical. We have such creeps in government who lack fundamental understanding. Good song. What a punch of poll pushers--don't we deserve better?
We do deserve better. I am so frustrated that I could binge drink.
There has been a lot of tragedy in the news lately, a lot of violent madness, around the world and here, in the US. In the back of my mind I have to wonder if the frustration from all of this is not fueling it to a small but significant degree.
I have resolved to set aside a rather minor amount of money to spend on anybody that runs for office next year who is not the incumbent and not a member of the tea party. It might be hard to find such a person.
-ER
I am disheartened.
Someone on TV made a good point yesterday. We need to raise the debt ceiling so as to be able to function--not just "service" our loans, which everybody would agree is money thrown down the tubes. It is, in fact, a housekeeping issue. It would be a bonus if we did this BEFORE our credit rating was lowered and our stock markets went berzerk.
THEN, we need to fix the spending problem, make it match our revenue. Let's not try to solve this huge problem in two weeks by attaching stuff to a debt ceiling bill. This is a big problem which we couldn't hope to solve in so short of time, on so little sleep. Everybody should have figured this out way back in the 9th grade when they found out there was so much homework in high school that they couldn't do it all on Sunday night.
Then, and this is why I am a Democrat and not a Republican, I think we need to remember a simple fact, which is that tax breaks and incentives ARE spending. Just as sure as purchasing bombers. As such, they should by rights be considered along with everything else as we try to cut spending to match revenue.
If there is a way to show the merits of giving Exxon a huge tax incentive, and demonstrate that it does the country more good than Medicare, or Social Security, then I want to hear it. But that is an entirely different debate.
I read, (really, I did--and that does not make it true either), that if the government did nothing besides service the debt, (which, by the way, includes the "Social Security Trust Fund"), we would still be close to a deficit situation given our current revenue base.
This sheds some light on why "entitlement reform" is such a big issue, by demonizing a bit of the debt, we can make it go away.
It also brings up revenue, which means taxes, which is worse than the "F" word that I used in the article above. We need tax reform. More revenue, an informed electorate, and those angry T-Partiers, who are, in my opinion, propped up by a small percentage of the tax money saved by the wealthy 5% who have done well since Reagan.
Lets be honest and move forward.
As of this moment, (19:00 Washington DC time, Saturday evening), it seems that the issue dividing the parties is the amount of the debt ceiling extension. the House version of this wants a small extension to make this come up again just after Christmas, and by extension to turn this into an election year issue, whereas the Senate version will put the next extension sometime after the 2012 election. The amount of the cuts is nearly the same, (909 billion for the Senate, (plus savings from the mideast wars winding down), and 918 billion for the House bill.
Does anyone see the irony that in the next year, the GOP will be trying to spend like hell to wreck the Dem's projections, as well as prolonging the war(s) and hoping for more terror, while the Dem's will be tighter than the bark on a hedge tree?
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