Posted on 07/08/2011 5:38:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Boehner is looking for a way to surrender.
This sunday meeting is a fraud to mke the politicians look busy.
This is just their morning 'junkie' fix. While true, it minimizes the fact that it owes an amount nearly equal to the GDP in real money; it's unfunded liabilities are near $100 Trillion if you count Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, EITC, EBTs, etc.
My only quibble with an otherwise sound article is that Pat knows better than this. Bush made a promise that isn't really in the keeping of the President, especially when Congress is in the hands of the other party. The President can veto new taxes, to be sure, if he doesn't mind vetoing every bill containing them, but that's all he can do. It was a stupid promise to make and the Dems made him pay for it.
What an idiot!
Needed to be repeated...........louder. :)
Don't you DARE cave! Holding the line is what you got ELECTED for, Republicans. You cave, you lose your jobs!
Gee, what’s with all the references to “terrorist” etc.? Chrissy, this, other quotes I’ve seen
Looks like the Dem talking points found their mouthpieces
Sorta like how we all learned the word “gravitas” back in the early Bush years.
(double down)
I call.
I am stunned at the shoddy job of communications the Republicans are doing.
The Democrats have massively increased spending with stimulus and other “emergency measures” and others programs since 2009 and now they are trying to lock in this massive spending.
Republicans need to make it clear that they are trying to get us back to roughly 2008 levels of spending which most considered way too high.
The world will not end if we to back to 2003- 2008 spending levels because the world did not end back then
Now the Rats want to limit the tax deductibility of employer-provided health insurance.
In other words, DeathCare in a different form.
If the GOP votes for this, they are anethema to me, DeathCare implementers.
It IS a tax increase and reduces the availability of health insurance to the PRODUCERS in our society, which are getting smaller in number every day.
Do it GOP, and you are DONE.
Government Stock Exchange.
Pat says, “fix bayonets!”
It must not. America's future hangs in the balance. Twenty-five percent of GDP going to government is not sustainable. If we do not get spending under 20%, this country will not survive.
“You are correct Peet, except the Latin is idiota and the Greek is idotes”
Thanks, but I’m the “donkey-like” (asinine) guy — I think Houghton M. was the idio* greek/latin poster. No biggie, though; my middle name could be “confused.” ☺
Technically, Keynes was against this, but in practice, Keynesian economists have never seen a tax hike they didn't love, regardless of where we are in the economic cycle.
Technically, Keynes was against this, but in practice, Keynesian economists have never seen a tax hike they didn't love, regardless of where we are in the economic cycle.
“Keynesian economists have never seen a tax hike they didn’t love.”
In Krugman’s case, he’s never seen a tax hike that he thought was big enough.
Enough really is enough. The Left does not understand economics. The Left embraces economic fallacies that suit its ideological wish lists--its dreams of a world that somehow vindicates the make believe world of "Human equality," where those who out produce others are seen as villains exploiting the less successful; where people who simply want to maintain the cultural heritage that their ancestors achieved over many generations of struggle are treated as the enemy of anyone on the planet who lacks pride in his or her own heritage; where the ultimate goal is a humanist project, harnessing the same hubris as with Nimrod at ancient Babel, to destroy all nations in a World-wide tyranny--the ultimate example of Totalitarian madness--called World Government.
Enough is certainly enough. This war on actual human achievement, on the realities of Man & Nature, as God created them, has been tolerated for far too long. People need to understand the game--driven by fantasy, compulsion & hatred--indeed, the furthest qualities in the world from the feigned "altruism," its perpetrators claim, and demand that it stop.
For more on the Babel analogy: Return To Babel?.
For a better understanding of why the Keynesian folly in Washington has not contributed to improving the employment picture--as witness this morning's data: Economics Of A Sociopath.
Enough is enough! It is not rendered holy by the pontifications of journalistic apologists.
William Flax
I thought the health care bill was going to be the game changer that saved us tons of money, reduced the debt, put folks back to work and cured global warming.
Now in addition, these same folks say the only cure to spendaholism is more tax?
Can I go to an enablers meeting?
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