Posted on 07/05/2009 9:53:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I worship Christ. I like Sarah. I disagree with your assessment of what she has done.
So do I.
Weak. Government is not a car. Next!
She's the one who said she grew the size of Alaska's government, sugar lumps.
I guess if you can grow government and reduce the budget then you can spend trillions of dollars and reduce the deficit.
Weak. Government is not a car. Next!
You're right, government is MUCH harder to stop. More like changing course on an aircraft carrier.
Or, look at differential calculus. If you have a continuously differentiable function, you cannot have a change in sign of the second derivative without the first derivative passing through zero. And if the first derivative is itself continuously differentiable, if it starts out positive, it must decrease smoothly, to zero, and then become negative.
Tea parties (the original) and the like excepted.
Cheers!
She didn't say she was changing course. She said she slowed the rate of growth of government.
To use your aircraft carrier analogy, that would be like the Admiral of the ship telling his crew, "Yes. We are headed straight for the huge pile of rocks but the good news is we are no longer at full throttle, we are at half throttle."
So that ship will take longer to hit the rocks but it will still hit them. Wonderful. Should the crew give him a standing ovation for that?
I wouldn't.
I suppose it's better than the Admiral who wants to put an afterburner on the ship though, isn't it? Or the Admiral who says "what rocks, full speed ahead!" You have to start somewhere, and while I agree it would be great to get some actual cuts to government, slowing the rate of growth is the best anyone could do under the earlier political climate.
In this economy though, I expect you'll soon see people running on the basis of making actual cuts in order to be fiscally responsible. Who would you rather have in that situation? Someone who will cut wasteful programs, or the standard liberal ploy of "we're out of money, cut the police and fire departments and empty the prisons!" I would argue that Sarah is already positioned to take advantage of running in such a climate.
The only way to really cut government is to elect people who will actually cut spending. One politician alone can't do it, but if she has millions of followers holding their representatives feet to the fire, or millions of people voting in representatives to help her. . .
I suppose so. All hail the captain who ran the ship aground at half-speed.
(sigh) We are so screwed.
Slowing the rate of growth is what must be done BEFORE it can be decreased. I consider Sarah saying she “slowed the rate of growth” to be not only honest, but to be commendable as well. Very few persons in holding office during the last 50 years have been able to honestly say that.
No it doesn't.
I consider Sarah saying she “slowed the rate of growth” to be not only honest, but to be commendable as well.
Honest? Yes. Commendable? No.
I suspect that you have no real world experience in such things as politics, finances or even physics to maintain such a stance.
It is impossible to take even a small thing such as a car at 30 mph and immediately force it to run backwards, or even to stop. It is not possible for even a family to immediately reverse overspending habits due to commitments already made. There is always a period of deceleration that is necessary in any massive system before being able to reverse it.
You appear extremely unrealistic in your demands, and therefore risk disqualifying yourself from being taken seriously.
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