Darn it! If the plan was to stifle the tax-and-spend progressives, the GOP is doing it all wrong. First you lower the borrowing limit, not increase it.
Then you gut the treasury by slashing taxes.
When there is no federal money for them to exchange for urban votes, the big-spenders will have to suck their own thumbs for nutriment. As it is, we just opened a gallon jar of Gerber strained peas for them to slurp from.
-Steve |
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Steve
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McQ, I don’t take sucker bets. |
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I agree. Veto that increase in the debt ceiling. Let’s shut down the government. That worked really well for the Rs the last time they did it.
BTW, the juxtaposition of this post with the one of Jon’s above it is just coincidence, right? |
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BTW, the juxtaposition of this post with the one of Jon’s above it is just coincidence, right? I don’t get it. What’s the similarity or contrast that would make this a coincidence? In any event, there was certainly no coordination or intent on my part. |
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Jon Henke
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My bet? No veto, but a whole lot of "unfortunate" and "regret" in a press release.
Any takers? My bet? He praises congress for exercising fiscal responsibility. |
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Is now the time to be fiscally conservative?
Your GDP is growing at very respectable rate, your debt is increasing as well but less rapidly and you are therefore ahead of the game. Being fiscally liberal is working.
The foriegn debt you incur is being purchased at rates lower than historically normal, Japan and China and the friendly oil producers extend you credit very cheaply. If you were running a business and were borrowing money at say 8% pa from your bank, but then the bank decides to offer you 4% you’d borrow more - right?
On the otherside equation you have to be sure your cutting really does help the economy. From the posts examples: military spending - maintaining an American military superiority has always served you well; hurricane releif - repairing damaged infrastructure is very needed whenever there is a disaster; education - investing in Americas human resource. If you cut these it will hurt.
Being a libertarian/conservative doesn’t just mean hollering "Stop spending my money!" and then being done. We need to show the governement and the population ways to make better government for less. Otherwise they might listen to the holler and stop spending money, being fools they are just as likely to stop spending it on something important as something wasteful and then - oh dear. |
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unaha-closp
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