Posted on 02/16/2011 5:09:31 AM PST by GlockThe Vote
Obama To The Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers
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The logic behind president Obama's budget has one extremely sensible feature: it distinguishes between spending that simply adds to consumption, and spending that really does mean investment. His analogy over the weekend - that a family cutting a budget would rather not cut money for the kids' education - is a sound one. We do need more infrastructure, roads and broadband, non-carbon energy and basic science research, and some of that is something only government can do. In that sense, discretionary spending could be among the most important things government could do to help Americans create wealth themselves. And yet this is the only spending Obama wants to cut.
But the core challenge of this time is not the cost of discretionary spending. Obama knows this; everyone knows this. The crisis is the cost of future entitlements and defense, about which Obama proposes nothing. Yes, there's some blather. But Obama will not risk in any way any vulnerability on taxes to his right or entitlement spending to his left. He convened a deficit commission in order to throw it in the trash. If I were Alan Simpson or Erskine Bowles, I'd feel duped. And they were duped. All of us who took Obama's pitch as fiscally responsible were duped.
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
It is pathetic. We all probably have some mentally-addled family member whose self-righteous liberalism has been the death of any “closeness.” It is probably for the best.
Write his ass off and dont discuss these things with him unless you are prepared to lose your sister over this.
You are correct, of course. I am not willing to lose my sister over his stupidness. There is just no reasoning with liberals. He’s gone so far left over the last year and a half - I just don’t get it. He was never very political. I think he’s been brainwashed by MSNBC. He’s a union guy with a chip on his shoulder about rich people not paying their fare share. He works for one of the huge corporations he’s always bashing (big NYC energy company).
I know he type - and they are beyond reasoning with. Dont even bother - its not worth it.
Argue with people you may sway, not with hard headed people like that.
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