Bob Corker: Let’s Face It, No One Cares About Fiscal Responsibility

There are truths, and there are truth bombs. Occasionally, though, there are truth nukes.

Someone asks Corker about fiscal responsibility. He answers, “Yeah, I’m just over it. Nobody cares. The President isn’t going to deal with it, he made it clear in the campaign.” @WRCB
— Michelle Heron (@MichelleWRCB) May 18, 2018

Somewhere Paul Ryan is sitting alone amid the rubble of entitlement reform, all alone and sobbing like Burgess Meredith at the end of that “Twilight Zone” episode.

In isolation, that tweet makes it sound like Corker is blaming Trump. Not really. Watch the clip below and you’ll find him candid about the fact that voters aren’t interested in fiscal responsibility either, which of course is true. Or revisit this post from March, when the GOP was busy moving its grotesque omnibus spending bill through Congress. Corker dropped another truth nuke on the occasion: If Hillary Clinton were president, he observed, congressional Republicans would at least pretend to care about cutting spending. With no Democrat in the White House to posture over, though, all pretense of concern fades. He wasn’t indicting Trump so much as his own colleagues. The party’s pitiful failure to shrink government is much more their fault than his, predating POTUS’s political career by literally decades. The next time someone tells you that Trump killed conservatism, you remind ’em: That which is already dead cannot die.

By the way, Corker ended up voting for that garbage omnibus bill. And he did it after voting for tax cuts last year and then complaining that deficits are poison for the country long-term. When he says he’s “over it” in terms of caring about fiscal responsibility, he’s not exaggerating for rhetorical effect. He really is! He’s got less than a year left in politics. He’s not fighting the tide anymore. If you want to throw some more gas on the fiscal fire, he’ll hand you the can. Exit question via Jay Cost: If he doesn’t care anymore, why not resign now and let the governor appoint someone who does?

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Oh he does, but you need to look into just who they are

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/09/16/13-things-know-nashville-latino-community/72305366/

This is the money quote from the article

4. We just got here. This is what makes the Latino population here different from what you might find in Miami, Los Angeles or New York City. Among the states that have experienced the most Latino growth since 2000, Tennessee ranks No. 3. Draw a big circle around Tennessee and you’ll find the rest of the top 10. They’re in the South and Midsouth, mostly.

Nuff said

Splains some others as well, interesting article...

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WRONG!

That omnibus bill was for around one trillion for seven months.

The government was out of funds and the bill gave us funds for seven more months. At the end of that bill, another bill would have to pass providing mor funding.

In recent years we have been spending around $3.65 trillion per year.

Tell me how $1 trillion over seven months is a higher rate than $3.65 trillion per year. In fact it’s a rate of about $2 trillion per year.

Nothing wrong with that.

Tax revenues are at record high despite the tax cuts. (If it holds).

Restore the import tariffs which the globalists/uniparty don’t want to do and you’ll have more government revenues to reduce deficits even as you help American industry rebuild.

Rather than cut entitlements, Trump has focused on getting the economy going again so we can afford the entitlements we promised.

Tax revenues are at record high despite the tax cuts. (If it holds).

Restore the import tariffs which the globalists/uniparty don’t want to do and you’ll have more government revenues to reduce deficits even as you help American industry rebuild.

Rather than cut entitlements, Trump has focused on getting the economy going again so we can afford the entitlements we promised.

Nothing wrong with that? You must be kidding.

You’re mixing up your numbers a bit DO. Sure, the fiscal year ends in September, but I am saying we are on track (judging from Q1 borrowings) for close to 2T.

Aside from that, when discussing the deficit, you really cannot ignore the off budget spending. The alphabet channels will not discuss off budget spending, or the hundreds of billions ‘lost’ by various agencies and the Pentagon. Do these entities go without? No, they just quietly get their coffers replenished.

All these numbers are a matter of public information, so there shouldn’t be any real controversy.

Michael, the government was all set to close in March.

It’s all set to close again in October.

That’s 10-3, for seven months.

That’s $1 trillion for seven months. It may be $1.1 - 1.3, but I don’t get where you’re pulling numbers from.

Down to zero to down to zero over 7 months, seems pretty clear to me.

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