Posted on 12/07/2012 10:21:34 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy
I’m there. The GOP was never conservative and will never be conservative. They control the machine. They are a tiny number of people. They have no voters. We are the People.
I’m there. The GOP was never conservative and will never be conservative. They control the machine. They are a tiny number of people. They have no voters. We are the People.
A sell out? Curious. Why a sell out?
I don’t like Ryan’s budget because it ignores that the current budget reflects a seriously impaired economy. He’s trying to fix the budget by cutting instead of first identifying what’s wrong with the economy and fixing that.
It’s the Republican form of “never waste a crisis”. Never mind the economy, lets use it to cut entitlements.
I also think it’s the reason the GOP lost.
His ideas take too long to even consider a balanced budget and nothing he proposes gets into the basic problems NO politician will discuss: stupid baseline budgeting.
You can’t win an arguement about government speding without addressing the functional problem. Fighting over “cuts” in increases is futile.
I definitely agree with that. They baked in the war costs and the stimulus plan into the annual budget. They were both sold as one time things. Bush tracked the war costs separately.
We really ought to be able to cut the military if we are winding down the wars. But I don't trust Obama to do it right. The Fiscal clift would scare me more if it wasn't for that. But still the tax increases are going to hurt the economy.
And 700 billion of stimulus annually is just ridiculous. That's $2000/person/year and Obama wants even more.
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