Posted on 08/20/2010 6:31:54 AM PDT by Stoutcat
Having learned a hard lesson last summer (i.e., don’t mess with your constituents), Congressmen and women in blue states have taken the craven way out and, rather than engaging the people of their districts, are actively avoiding their voters this summer, attempting to spin the story by holding “invitation only” events and “telephone town hall meetings” where irate citizens can be more easily controlled, or oops! accidentally cut off, with far less likelihood of heated exchanges going viral on YouTube...
...The dichotomy between the two parties couldn’t be clearer during this August recess. The party in power fears the wrath of the voters, while the minority party is proposing ideas, glad-handing the folks, and making their presence felt in their districts. And therein lies the difference between Red and Blue...
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Just work to make sure that “Ain’t No Cure” doesn’t apply to *us* when we take back some power in November.
The problem is debt...and debt is more addictive than crystal meth.
Debt is deflationary. Debt accumulates. Debt is burdensome.
Yet no one in government want to stop deficit spending.
Well, once we take back some power, that difficult task is going to fall to us...and if we punt, then “Ain’t no cure” will apply to us, too.
Cutting debt is hard to do. We’d better be up for it.
I think deflation is coming fast. Then hyper stagflation. It ain’t gonna be pretty. I am making survival plans just in case. A contraction in the economy next year will put us under. Even a small contraction will destroy all the CBO and government rosy scenarios being spouted in the MSM. They have based everything on a projection of 3% growth next year. What if we contract by a percent or two?
I hear you. Didn’t mean to imply that we couldn’t take back the House and maybe the Senate, too. Hence, the BLUE part of the title (as opposed to Red).
Debt is indeed addictive. I fear that my generation (late 40s/early 50s in age) are going to be the ones who have to step up and say “I will give up everything I paid into Social Security—just cut the whole program for anyone 55 and younger NOW.” I don’t want to say that, but it must be said, and I think I (we) are the ones who will have to say it. If there are enough of us, and if we are loud enough, it may happen.
Medicare is a whole different problem, though. Not sure how that one is solved.
Knowing that they are losing power, it’s not out of the question for Dems to pass a poison pill that becomes toxic during the GOP takeover.
If the Republicans take the house we will be in for a battle royale between the Communist Administration and the American Legislature.
Eventually there's no choice. The only question is whether we do it ourselves or someone does it for us.
It’s not burdensome to THEM. They get their power-jolt, they get the media adulation, they get their pensions. It’s all good for them. They don’t even really have to worry about the payback: their kids are likely going to be in government and be just as shielded in times to come as they are now.
Time to vote ‘em out and revoke their pensions. Ought to be the rule that if you spend it and can’t fund it, you owe it out of personal funds. That’d put some ginger in their spines.
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