Last year when the GOP voted to fully fund NPR I came to the conclusion that they were never serious about cutting Federal spending.
I mean, If we can’t defund NPR, what on earth CAN we defund?
I finally came to the same conclusion. Despite years and decades of rhetoric about cutting the budget, when it comes down to it, neither party is willing to bite the bullet and do it whatever the political cost. It's the same with the tax code: Common taxpayers hate the complexity, politicians posture about simplifying it, and nothing gets done because they don't want anything to get done.
Back to the deficit, I've come to the conclusion that nothing else matters--not immigration, not the wall, not trade, nothing. If the government doesn't stop spending, and soon, the country will fail. What that means I'm not sure, but it will be painful if not fatal.
I mean, If we can’t defund NPR, what on earth CAN we defund?
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Nothing apparently.
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Last year when the GOP voted to fully fund NPR I came to the conclusion that they were never serious about cutting Federal spending.
I mean, If we can’t defund NPR, what on earth CAN we defund?
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Oh, that’s easy: NOTHING. (How’d those ~7 prior anti-O’Care bills go again??)
Esp. considering the (R)N(C) has given us the biggest, illegal, unconst. budgets/dept/agencies/edicts *EVERY* time they gain the majority: TSA, NSA, NCLB, MediXYZ expansion, TARP...