Posted on 02/23/2012 5:50:51 AM PST by Kaslin
“Until the crushing dependence on government aid is at least reduced, we’ve still got massive deficits that will collapse soon enough under the weight of made up money. There is no method to tax our way out of it, nor is there a way to grow our way out of it. The singular solution that has a shot at working is cutting benefits, and the only way that happens is really a national campaign - local, county, state, federal races - all aiming to crush this beast.”
Do you really think that ANY politician is going to do what is necessary to substantially “reduce” such aid? That would be political suicide. Of course it would be “the answer”, but impossible to achieve through elective governance (precisely because those who would impose such draconian policies could not be re-elected). As you yourself wrote, “There is no method to tax our way out of it, nor is there a way to grow our way out of it.”
Around a week ago, Freeper Jim Noble put up a great post in another thread. Here it is:
Quoting the brilliant Richard Fernandez (Belmont Club), “Obama is ultimately unimportant. It is not because he is President that the crisis has come. On the contrary, it is because the crisis has come that he is the President.”
It has not been demonstrated, anywhere in the world since 1945, that an elected Legislature will cut public spending in a meaningful way. It does not matter what they say, nor does it matter what the voters say they want.
Spending goes up because it must. Limiting taxes did not work, because they can borrow. Limiting borrowing does not work (in the US) because they can print - and now, they don’t even have to print, it’s just a few keystrokes to the next trillion.
The poor Republicans have no clue about who or what they are dealing with. And if they did, there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
The failure of the two Reagan terms to limit the monster meant they the die was cast. The seeds of communism have been sewn, and Obama is here to reap.
God help us all.
25 posted on February 13, 2012 10:29:46 AM EST by Jim Noble
Here on FR, we watch the inevitable coming collapse of Greece with amusement and pith, but all the while the US is on exactly the same course. Greece is but a fishing boat when compared next to our Titanic.
It’s impossible for elected politicians to solve the coming collapse because (like any human) they are bound by the constraints of their own personal needs (electability) and cannot “act beyond” such bounds to do the right thing. The time may come when enough of them will have no choice to do so, but that time (when they no longer have a choice) will arrive only “after the collapse”.
Otherwise, politically impossible.
Well, that’s depressing. True as well. God help us.
” - - - Larry Sabato was on Fox News the other day and the subject was the brokered convention. He said that no one that was brought up in a brokered convention ever was election and he gave Dewey as an example. - - - “
Dewey was chosen in a brokered Convention in 1948, which was the last time the Republicans had a Brokered Convention. Truman won by a hair.
What we have had since 1948 is a series of RINO Presidential Candidates that have all promised to “Balance the Budget.”
No elected Republican President has balanced the Federal Budget since 1948.
All elected Republican Presidents have spent beyond the income received, so all have been RINOs.
The Republican Party thus needs to be taken over by Republicans who are Middle-of-the Road Republicans, that is Republicans who spend only what the Federal Income was for that year.
Republicans who spend more than the Federal Income are left of center.
It does not matter if a Democrat or a Republican President spends our dollar, because it is still our dollar that is spent, and we are stuck with paying it back, plus interest every year.
What is not working should not keep on being tried and suddenly expect it to work. We are on the insane course defined so well by Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same things over and over again, and expecting different results.”
If “stupid” is defined as the impossibility to learn, then the GOP is truly stupid.
The best way to keep Conservatives from voting in November, 2012 is for the GOP to choose a big-spending Nominee to Campaign on a promise to cut Federal Baseline Spending. It hasn’t worked since 1948, and it damn sure won’t work in 2012.
Either have a GOP Brokered Convention in Tampa, or start Class Action Impeachment Proceedings for Obama on September 1, 2012 at the Concord Bridge, Massachusetts.
"It addresses only VP candidates; what’s the significance and who cares?"With due respect look at the Veeps who went on to occupy the Oval Office after Ike.
Agreed the entire article is fodder for the foolish but I do think a VP selection on the coattails of a "strong and effective" leader is tantamount to subsequently occupying the White House.
The battle should be a passion filled bloody affair. Our country is being dismantled.
I am of the firm conviction that only Gingrich has the ability to:
• Disembowel the Rot from the Obama AdministrationWhat I admire most about the Speaker is his willingness to piss us all off!
• Effect the Required Positive and Substantive Changes we need
• Coalesce the Body Politic
• Invigorate Senatorial and Congressional wins
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