Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) lashed out at the upper chamber today as a symbol of government’s runaway power in Americans’ lives.
“It’s an alternate universe. No, this — this place is a joke. I mean, bottom line, this is an absurd process,” Johnson said on CNBC. “It certainly proves the genius of our founding fathers that government should be limited. I mean, the fact that we have this place having such an enormous effect on our economy, on people’s livelihood, is wrong. It’s simply wrong.”
“So, I’m the manufacturer. I’m always looking for the cause of problems. The cause of the problem is that government is far too large. It’s far too intrusive into our lives. It exerts way too much control over our economy, but that’s where we’re at. And, you know, I have no — I don’t know too many people that really think government’s effective or efficient. Why would they think the governing body of that government would be particularly effective or efficient as well?” he continued. “This is a mere symptom of the overall problem in a system of government that has become too large and too intrusive in our lives.”
Do they know that this year’s deficit is $1.5 trillion? Somebody should tell them.
As far as I’m concerned all sequester-related cuts should go into effect effective tomorrow. Then let’s talk about the size and scope of additional cuts in the new year. We’ve taxed the rich, and now it’s time to cut spending.
As long as politicians have to buy re-election votes, there will never be any cuts of significance.
It takes place over nine years, forces $1.2 T deficit reduction automatically. It penalizes congressional and executive inaction which is highlighting the stupidity of all sides.
The DoD and discretionary domestic spending lose equally. Congress could easily re-fund critical DoD programs. Also any agreement on taxes can be made retroactive to Jan 1.
IMO the hype right now is designed to make the Republicans look weak, ineffective and cruel in the eyes of an uninformed or more properly, a mis-informed public. They have already demonstrated their stupidity last November, how can it get worse?
When political/regulator folks use the word, sequester, to refer to something about the scheduled, automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, they intend to make a deal on the tax hikes while plotting and scheming to increase spending.
Ok, so WHY do we need a Congress? They have ben UNABLE to:
1) Pass a budget for 3 years
2) Comply with the voters and stop ZeroCare
3) Avoid the “fiscl cliff” (that they created)
4) Stop trying to spend America out of a deep recession
5) Be responsible with what used to be the most powerful nation on earth!
In addition, we know the following:
The Dems will do whatever zero wants, so they may as well stay home and phone in their votes; the Republicans are going to cave to whatever the Dems want, so that may as well stay home and phone in their votes; zero will circumvent the Congress when he DOESN’T get whatever he wants, so there’s no point in the pretense that ANY of them are actually doing any “work”!
The Food Stamp President wants to go over the cliff to collapse the economy and then take complete charge as the savior (aka dictator) of the country. He and his staff are complete psychos and anyone would be an idiot to take their word on any deal. Like the last proposed debt ceiling deal, he changed the terms after the deal was announced.