Posted on 03/28/2009 3:42:57 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Republicans say the path to prosperity is not the excessive spending proposed by President Barack Obama but limited spending that holds down the growth of government, taxes and debt.
''We believe you create prosperity by having an affordable government that pursues its responsibilities without excessive costs, taxes or debt,'' Sen. Judd Gregg said Saturday in the GOP radio and Internet address.
Gregg, who was offered the job of Obama's commerce secretary but withdrew his name, has become one of the toughest critics of Obama's handling of the economy.
''In the next five years, President Obama's budget will double the national debt; in the next 10 years, it will triple the national debt,'' the New Hampshire Republican said.
''His budget assumes the deficit will average $1 trillion every year for the next 10 years and will add well over $9 trillion in new debts to our children's backs,'' Gregg said. ''He also is proposing the largest tax increase in history, much of it aimed at taxing small business people who have been, over the years, the best job creators in our economy.''
Gregg said Obama's proposals ''represent an extraordinary move of our government to the left.''
He said Obama ''is not trying to hide this; in fact, he is very forthright in stating that he believes that by greatly expanding the spending, the taxing and the borrowing of our government, this will lead us to prosperity.''
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We don’t want to cut the GROWTH in government, we want to eviscerate government bureaucracy now......cut government by 25% !!!
I waited for decades for the Republicans to get power and what did they do when it finally came?
They spent money like crazy and failed to push even one conservative idea. And once again the party of RINO turds want our support?
I have NO confidence in either the Democrat or Republican party. Is there a sliver of difference between the two crap ass parties?
Is there a sliver of difference between the two crap ass parties?
Appearances are no, however, that would be wrong. The loud strident and media vaunted RINOS and their supporters tend to overshadow the conservative Republicans.
I have always pointed to the party platforms when attempting to judge the differences in the two major parties. The differences are huge, but the Republican party will not punish those who refuse to abide by #1 the Constitution, and founding principles and #2 the party platform.
What is to be done? The big tent contains a lot of voters with diverse ideas about government, and how it should be run. when those big tenters are not united, the Republican party tends to lose, and now with such diversity in the voting populace, tending democrat, the situation worsens as fast as time passes.
Apparently lots of people were looking for the second coming, or how else did we elect a resume for community organizing, the ONE. Maybe like the followers of Jim Jones, they wanted to believe, and before they knew it, they ran out of choices before Jim Jones ran out of kool aid.
What with these tow parties there will never be a balanced budget passed
Don’t ya miss the winter in the U.P.?
“If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses.
And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers.
And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on ‘til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automations of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.
And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”
Jefferson
Unfortunately, I see us at a point in our history where the majority wants big government on the socialistic model of some European countries. Since we are on the upward curve of such a system, the average Joe and Jane don’t realize yet how much it’s going to cost them and their children and grandchildren to have that. They’ve bought the idea that is you just tax the heck out of all the rich people, that will create utopia. I am astounded at how easy it is to trump up class envy nowadays.
They don’t get that you could confiscate all the wealth of the “rich” people and it would only run our bloated government for a few months. When that wealth is all gone, the Average Joe and Jane will get it in the shorts. Then the pendulum will swing back.
“Republicans say the path to prosperity is not the excessive spending proposed by President Barack Obama but limited spending that holds down the growth of government, taxes and debt.”
This WAS the path as late as the first term of GWB - but now the path is REDUCING spending and REDUCING the size of government, taxes and debt.
As a people, we have a subprime mortgage on our house of government - and we are waiting for some sort of bailout that will not come.
We need to move into more modest accommodations that we can afford to finance over the long term.
It’s no longer about reducing government growth it’s about foreclosure and recovery from our present state. No leader is serious until they advocate reducing government in real terms. It will happen one way or another.
Yup! Read my tag line
Talk is cheap. They sure didn't walk it like they talked it, when they were in power.
Come on man,
What about snowmobiling?
What about roof high snowdrifts?
What about ice fishing?
What about dirty sludge?
What about high taxes?
What about snow golfing?
What about your joints hurting from the cold?
Ok so maybe just maybe ya made the right choice.
Regards Yooper.
I miss the way it feels when snow gets over the tops of your Sorrels when you were just going out to your car to get something and don't bother tying them or pulling your pants over them.
I miss the all the preparation getting ready to go skiing as well as the long walk from the parking lot to where you put your skis on.
I really miss shoveling snow in November, December, January February, March and April.
I also really miss blowing snow on those days the wind can't make up it's mind what direction it wants to blow.
I love working on my snowmobile on really cold days out in the garage just to find out it needs to go to the shop for $1,000 worth of repairs.
I love rocking a car back and forth to get it started when there's a few inches of snow that fell overnight.
And the best...I love the way vinyl seats crack on days when it's 45 degrees below zero and you still have to go to work.
A great reality check is the scene in Fargo when the guy is in the empty parking lot, trying to chip ice off his windshield. That was the day I realized I was never going to move back home, at least for winter.
Of all the things I really don't miss, I do miss the smell of spring thaw. It's something you don't even notice until it's you live somewhere the ground doesn't freeze 3 feet or more. I also miss camping at Imp Lake.
Strive for golf 3 times a week.
I lived in Saginaw for a year and a half as a kid.
Lots of fun in the country with a big dog.
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