[cripplecreek]

What irritates me is all the bread and circuses about entitlement cuts when there are a million other less politically sensitive things that could be cut.

Sure things like PBS, bike paths and hiking trails are just drops in the bucket but enough drops will fill a bucket. We should force the democrats to make a public choice.

[rarestia]

This bears repeating:

But it is not the same politically, so long as gullible people don't look beyond words to the reality that inflation taxes everybody, the poorest as well as the richest.

So while Obama claims to be John Q. Everyman, he's actually destroying his own constituency without making it seem so. He can continue to blame the Republicans for the declining state of social and cultural affairs in the country while he eats Wagyu beef under one of his 54 Christmas Holiday Trees.

[Servant of the Cross]

Fiscal Cliff Debate Is About Size of Government, Not Taxing "the Rich"... Thomas Sowell

Speaker Boehner. You should be shouting this all day, every day.

When a country is running annual deficits >$1 TRILLION, it is a SPENDING problem. Not a revenue problem!

As Mark Steyn points out, even if you confiscated every penny the Forbes 400 have, it would be enough to cover just over one year’s federal deficit. And after that you’re back to square one. It’s not that “the rich” aren’t paying their “fair share,” it’s that America isn’t. A majority of the electorate has voted itself a size of government it’s not willing to pay for."