Krauthammer has been acting like a real jerk.
There is a huge difference between throwing porkulus funds into the gutter for your friends to fight over, and letting hard-working taxpayers keep their own money.
In reality, the first did not succeed in stimulating anything. In fact, it resulted in more job losses. The second won’t stimulate anything either—because we already HAVE the Bush tax cuts. But if we don’t keep them, then it will be like dropping a large rock on the remains of our economy. It will cost MORE millions of job losses.
Krauthammer does not understand that there is a difference between balancing the budget by raising taxes and by cutting spending. Raising taxes makes things worse. Cutting spending makes things better. Spending cuts are the only rational way to balance the budget in this disastrous economic collapse. It will hurt, but not permanently.
When did they ever cut spending except for the military?
Yes. Stimulus per se is not a problem. The problem is whether the chosen “stimulus” effectively stimulates the economy!
Duh. Charles, we are all FOR stimulating the economy. Had Obambi proposed something that would actually work to stimulate the economy, we would have been all FOR it. But he didn’t. He threw money down Ratholes and simply called it “Stimulus.” That doesn’t cut it.
If, Charles, you are right that Obama has actually agreed, through extension of the Bush tax cuts, to a “Stimulus” that will effectively stimulate the economy, what in Hell’s Bells is the problem with that?
The Rats could care less about effectively stimulating the economy. They were for “Stimulus,” i.e. Porkulus, precisely because it was porkulus. It had nothing to do with whether or not it actually stimulated the economy.
The Rats are against (Charles’ term) the present “stimulus,” i.e. refusing to raise tax rates, precisely because they have absolute bloodlust for always, under every circumstance, RAISING TAXES. It has nothing to do with whether or not this actually will stimulate the economy.
You can’t blame Rats for not caring that Obambi, supposedly, got a “stimulus” package here. They DON’T care about stimulating the economy, period! They care about increasing government spending and increasing taxes, each of those as stand-alone goals and dreams.