Posted on 07/28/2011 12:27:32 PM PDT by Sporke
We are screwed.
I was watching C-span and the House had a vote on an amendment to cut 11 million from the National Endowment for the Arts.
It failed because 55 Republicans joined all the Democrats in voting against it.
If we can't cut 11 million from a worthless program, what hope do we have?
Steny Hoyer is currently speaking and there can be no doubt that he still wants NEW TAXES (that's the Democrat "shared sacrifice" mantra).
The next step ~ in the 2012 budget and appropriations bills is to ZERO OUT those targets. FY 2012 begins in two months.
Primary the 55 GOPers and replace them with Tea Partiers in 2012
Steny Hoyer is currently speaking and there can be no doubt that he still wants NEW TAXES (that's the Democrat "shared sacrifice" mantra).
The next step ~ in the 2012 budget and appropriations bills is to ZERO OUT those targets. FY 2012 begins in two months.
Primary the 55 GOPers and replace them with Tea Partiers in 2012
You’re right, Social Security and Medicare benefits simply have to be reduced, and the congress is too cowardly to admit it. 11 million from the NEA is not going to solve the problem.
It is time for an end to the republican party. Can’t even cut 11 million dollars. There is no group in Washington that cares about cutting expenses.
We can’t expect “artists” to creat new ways to denigrate religious symbols with bodily excretions unless the government adequately compensates them now, can we?..........
Oh my! These Marxists aren’t serious at all. Why dont these millionaires reach into thir own pockets and pay for the left-wing propaganda that populates NPR and the NEA?
While I’m no fan of the NEA, 11 million in the grand scheme of things is like scolding your spouse for buying a Snickers bar because it affects your IRA contribution.
What a joke!
Washington is STILL playing politics with America’s future.
Until that changes, nothing about this issue will change.
What needs to happen is some real damage to bring focus on Washington, the Marxist America-hater in the Oval Office, and the overall malfeasance and incompetence of the Congress.
1. We need to suffer a significant downgrade.
2. Regardless of the massive blame-game and tons of lies from Washington and its lapdog media, that will start in Washington, focus will come to bear on those that are responsible. Until these criminals who have destroyed our economic system are held accountable, nothing will happen — but then it will happen. I think the people will get mad enough to clean house in Washington and get real serious about it.
Let the downgrades begin....
If these people don’t see the frivolous nature of continued funding for something like The National Endowment for the Arts...then NO progress will be made in reducing the debt.
If I am plagued with creditors and expect rough times ahead... I don’t go out and buy a new Cadillac!
I have been watching the amendments and am amazed at the large number of wasteful amendments that are passing. There is a group of about 50 Republicans who consistently vote with the Dems. Does anyone know who these Rinos are?
Posting this as many places as possible...
Watch for this: If we do NOT get downgraded after this new Boehner bill passes, gets “modified” in the Senate and passes, and then passes the House again, you will have definitive proof that we were gonna get suckered all along. Moody’s and S&P said that to avoid a downgrade, a plan on par with Ryan’s original bill or at minimum CCB must be passed. This new bill is nowhere close to those and with Senate mods, it will be worse. If the downgrade does not happen, we got hosed, man, we got hosed.
The Republicants want to spend taxpayers money just as badly as the Dems do. The Dems are just more open about it.
This whole debt limit manufactured crisis is just that, a manufactured crisis............which neither side wants to waste.
When the dust settles, they will both wink and nod that they put one over on old US again.......
You are right on point. One of my favorite economic advisors, Tealeye, says her budget consists of, “If I want it and I have money, I buy it. If I don’t have money, I don’t want it anymore.”
The fact is, if you do not fully fund your IRA, you don’t have any business wasting money on a Snickers Bar (my personal favorite candybar), neither does your spouse.
Priorities. Fund needs, then wants. Stop funding when you run out of money.
Contrary to popular opinion, Congress does not spend like a drunken sailor. I know I was one. A drunken sailor stops spending when he does not find any money in his pocket.
If the tea party folks don’t get all 3 branches we are screwed, the same old same old has died...
Democrats are willing to let August 2nd come and go unless they get their way. It's standard operating procedure for them since their agenda and political power trumps everything else. In this fight, we should be playing with the same rules. If Democrats refuse to accept any spending cuts without tax increases, then let August 2nd happen and let the chips fall where they may.
This is a battle which must be had, sooner than later.
There is going to be pain. The longer we let the spending disease spread, the more ineffective and painful the eventual cure will be.
Keep things in perspective. $11 million is 0.00027% of yearly federal budget. Social security + Medicare + medicaid = 60% of federal yearly budget.
Point is don’t get worked up over ridiculously small items. If you add all such ridiculously small items, it would’nt even amount to 1% of federal budget. Whereas the entitlements are growing at more than double the inflation rate. They will bankrupt us (technically we already are bankrupt if the federal gov’t was a private company) much faster. A $11 million item will take 200,000 years to bankrupt us.
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