GOP budget writers face long odds in taming Obama’s appetite.
He’s shown he’s far from being finished as a lame duck.
Obama only does what he knows he can do.
Even this article which is critical of the Obama budget points out how screwed up our thinking is. How can this budget reduce the deficit 1.2 trillion when each year shows ever increasing deficits. They must mean it reduces the deficit by 1.2 trillion over the “baseline” which is the scenario in which politicians do absolutely nothing. So yes,there probably is a scenario that is 1.2 trillion worse.
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act.
8. The ways in which a great debt, so constituted and applied, will contribute to the ultimate end in view are both numerous and obvious. A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
/Freneau “Rules”