Posted on 02/24/2010 4:35:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Good article. I think we sometimes lose perspective on the long term view when we deal with day to day “crises”.
Which would mean that they expect the Republicans to come up with a path to get us out of the multitrillion-dollar deficits. I hope we have a plan.
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Tax cuts would be nice, but they are not my focus.
I'm not talking about a reduced rate of increase in the growth of government programs.
I'm looking for 10% annual reduction in government spending each year, every year, until we don't have a deficit.
There is no talk of reducing entitlement programs coming from Republicans. I don’t think there is any consensus even among R’s for reductions of benefits.
I haven’t heard a peep from our side. I think our plan is to not have a plan.
And clearly they had such huge concerns about deficits that they immediately launched massive programs to reduce them?
Anyone with a functioning brain cell knows that the only thing DemonRATs care about is being in power, and they will destroy anything and everything to achieve that.
It is my understanding that "private armies" were instrumental to the expansion of the Republic's empire. A wealthy man would raise an army to go conquer and plunder a foreign land. The troops shared in the booty and Rome then sent governors. The permanent professional army did not come until later.
**Then in 1994, Newt Gingrich and the new Republican majority championed trying to get to a balanced budget (and succeeded, with Bill Clinton in 1997).**
Long past time for the GOP/RNC to prepare, present and publish a PLATFORM. Use the best think tanks, macro-economists etc., & spell out policies that candidates will embrace & TEA partiers can support.
Keep it simple and pro-Constitutional Republic in its entirety.
Not broken. Just power and control hungry. There would be an easy fix if a few statesmen were to emerge and call obama out on his socialist/Marxist policies. I have not given up hope that some heroes will step up and save us from the wanna be dictator in our White House.
Not among the leadership, no. And if the GOP takes control of Congress in November then come January it will be Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McConnell. And the hard questions will still be ignored.
Then we're like the dog that chases the car and one day actually catches one. We won't have a clue as to what to do next. And if that's what happens then that'll practically guarantee an Obama win two years later.
Yep, our government is not broken. It is working exactly as intended. We The People are a huge part of the checks and balances under our Constitution and we are working as hard as we can to STOP a Marxist transformation of our form of government.
Other administrations, including Jimmy Carter's, complained that government was broken because they generally were incompetent to lead.
Can't say this doesn't apply here as well. Obambi is incompetent. I even fear he may be less than psychologically intact. But whatever, he is a horrible, horrible, horrible politician. In the end, he has/had some charisma, but he has no political skills whatsoever. He is just incompetent on every scale.
However, a form of government and the public are functioning adequately not only when they block bad or unacceptable law (as currently is the case) but when they are able to solve great dangers to the nation. We may soon get a test on that second matter.
Sigh. We The People are exerting a positive influence on our national security by opposing Obambi's dangerous bumbling on terrorism and so on. But this is not a realm where there is a large margin for error.
I think the platform should have two words and that is all:
LIMIT GOVERNMENT.
Just follow that principle across-the-board, in every situation, and every single goal of the conservative movement, even “social” goals, will be advanced or freed up for advancement.
Nope. The hard questions will not be ignored.
If they are, it will only be because We The People backed off and went back to leaving our nation's fate to the "professionals."
Amen. But I fear any plan that would work would be so draconian as to scare most of America away. I'm not sure we have the leadership to put such a plan into practice. The first job would be to convince people it's the only plan that has any hope of success. After that, it would be a full time job to keep on track with it.
As painful as the plan, and actually carrying it out would be it's far better than what awaits us if we don't git-’er-done.
I suggest we book mark this and see what happens. I have zero faith in Boehner or McConnell, both creatures of D.C. who are so far out of touch with what real people deal with that it isn't funny any more.
Should the Republicans take control of Congress in the fall then I truly believe that the Speaker and the Majority Leaders and the whips and the committee chairmen should all be Congressmen and Senators with four years or less in D.C. They are about the only ones with new ideas and an understanding of what life outside the Beltway is like. Never happen though.
Some of the things that I have read that helped bring down the ancient Roman Empire were:
1) Undermining of the currency system,
2) A very large standing army to quell any possible rebellions in the lands Rome controlled,
3) A very large bureaucracy.
The army and the bureaucracy required huge amounts of money to keep employed.
America’s military and law enforcement is in 143 countries and our bureaucracy is beyond outlandish. Since we took the Dollar off of the gold and silver standards it has become practically worthless.
We are definitely following in the footsteps of the ancient Roman Empire. We are only doing it bigger, better and faster.
My only certain income is from social security, about $1300 a month, before taxes. And from that I have to pay for my Medicare and drugs. I am a full time freelance photographer and that’s a tough way to make a living these days. I have some good months, but for the most part I barely manage to cover expenses. Even so, I would give up 10% or more of my SS if I thought it would be used for nothing more than getting the deficit under control.
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