Posted on 08/15/2011 11:46:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
The only time David Gregory has been semi coherent was when he appeared drunk on the Imus radio show. He should do meet the press while drunk, it might make more sense.
Gregory is an idiot.
He suggests we listen to even more bad advice from people who have shown themselves to be massive failures.....typical Lib...
She has already stated that she would cut entitlements like Paul Ryan. That is what has to be cut, no two ways about it.
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That’s a perfectly reasonable position for Bachmann to take but that will hardly scratch the surface of a $1.6 trillion deficit. The fact of the matter is that nobody, including Michele Bachmann or Paul Ryan, has detailed a 2012 budget that comes in at anything like the $2.2 trillion that represents the U.S. Federal Governments FY2012 income.
So until I see that FY2012 balanced budget I’m just going to laugh at those politicians, mostly Tea Party types unfortunately, who are either just naive or are just voting what their constituents want - no more borrowing. While that sounds good even to me you have to be able to explain what the consequences would be if you actually managed to balance the budget in a single year. If you think that is easy consider the fact that even if you zeroed out the entire $670 billion Defense budget you would still have a long way to go.
If anyone believes that a FY2012 balanced budget is achievable just show us where the $1600 billion in cuts are coming from.
Bachmann it turned out did well voting ‘no’ because the final deal was another closed doors secret agreement that was shoved down members throats at the last minute much like the stimulus and obama-care and TARP were with trigger gimmick to try to hide the meaning of the vote. Amazing the MSM considers these smelly deals examples of ‘bi-partisonship Washington working’.
Just to be my usual contrarian self, you cant cut entitlement spending without defying the results of most polls. So 'the views of the American people' is usually what ends up giving us deficits even though they say they hate them, that and big deals.
Very great risk, indeed. As, for example, Keynesian Harvest.
William Flax
This is the conceit of the left. They know better, so you have no right to speak up against their views.
During our own Great Recession, the multiplier has been below 1.0! And still declining....
Gregory is like the rest of the left. He beats up girls. They are effing fascists.
“Keynes didn’t believe that government stimulus would work if the money multiplier was less than 2.”
The multiplier is always negative. When the government spends, the private sector and the economy contracts. Keynes was wrong.
I agree the cuts are not enough, but it is more than the other candidates have offered. Do you hold out for a candidate that has yet to come forward with a better plan or do you go with the one that cuts the most like her? I don’t believe in waiting for “hope” and “Change”, so a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. If you have a better viable candidate, let’s here of him or her.
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My problem with Michele Bachmann is that she infers that she has a budget in mind that is $1600 less than the current FY2012 budget. Any budget that cuts less requires an increase in the debt ceiling.
The simple fact that she is against an increase in the debt ceiling means to me that she knows how to balance the budget for FY2012 at $2.2 trillion.
I don’t believe she can and I’m surprised that she hasn’t been challenged on that specific issue.
So I’m still waiting for the Bachmann $2.2 trillion FY2012 budget.
You are right...NOTHING is served by conversing with the enemy in their own camp. What ‘their camp’ needs is an outright ‘no-quarters raid’.....screw them and their listeners.
A candidate can make all kinds of promises. Being able delivering the promises is another thing.
” Bachmann gets ‘-A’ for guts for going back on those shows and defending her conservative positions. Gregory trying to get her on her past statements on Gays was even worse. She didnt apologize for them or deny them nor did she get lured into getting off subject explaining them. “
Bingo!
” Bachmann gets ‘-A’ for guts for going back on those shows and defending her conservative positions. Gregory trying to get her on her past statements on Gays was even worse. She didnt apologize for them or deny them nor did she get lured into getting off subject explaining them. “
Bingo!
Gregory is too out of touch to realize it, but this exchanges didn’t hurt Bachmann, it helped her. People viewing this exchange would have agreed and connected with Bachmann on the issue.
REP. BACHMANN: And they've done such a smashing job for us, haven't they?
Love it!
Of course Hussein voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006 and neither Gregory nor any of the other media toadies ever uttered a syllable about it.
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