A successful intervention would have been if we had stopped them cold and forced a shutdown of the government's non essential services. We could have then had a serious discussion about the size of government services given the size of our wallet. I guess we have not hit rock bottom yet.
A successful intervention would have been if we had stopped them cold and forced a shutdown of the government’s non essential services. We could have then had a serious discussion about the size of government services given the size of our wallet.
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Amen. that is the truth!
not the baloney and low expectations from the “1/3rders”.
even the CNN poll showed we had the support of the VAST majority of Americans. 74% wanted BBA. 65% wanted major spending cuts.
we should have held our ground, and got REAL cuts.
(even tiny real cuts, are better than simply reducing the INCREASE by 2%!!!)
Instead we gave Obama 2 trillion more to spend?!?
instead of cuts now, to force HIS base to fight each other?
and that bill has BUILT IN increases, and allows the 2012 and 2013 budget to be “DEEMED” passed. 10 billion MORE for Pell Grants, yet allows tax cuts and AMT to expire.
another such victory, and we’d lose the war!
and people like DOGHEAD forget the 2011 budget, that Boehner HEROICALLY got a what, 60 billion cut from?
when it was 400 billion higher than before?
or that Boehner helps lead the charge for... TARP ?
...and Europe won’t last until 2013. they’re going down.
this was our ONE chance to batten the hatches for the storm.
any working family knows we should IMMEDIATELY cut.
instead of going another 9 trillion in debt...
(but the 1/3rders say we cut 1 trillion in spending!
...yeah. we cut 1 trillion off the 10 trillion INCREASE!)