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Simply Unsustainable Red Ink
IBD Editorials ^
| February 23. 2011
| RALPH R. REILAND
Posted on 02/23/2011 5:36:58 PM PST by Kaslin
'So be it."
Those three words, uttered by House Speaker John Boehner last week about the prospect of federal work force layoffs, generated a firestorm of anger and anxiety among congressional Democrats, liberals, federal workers (and federal nonworkers in no small number of cases, considering the absence of output) and various other advocates of ever-expanding government.
The House speaker's answer came in response to a question from Pacifica Radio's Leigh Ann Caldwell.
"Do you have any estimate on how many jobs will be lost through this?" she asked, referring to the impact on government payrolls of the Republican majority's plans to reduce Washington's record levels of red ink by cutting federal spending by billions of dollars.
Boehner's reply: "Since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs, and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. We're broke."
As a footnote, Pacifica Radio describes itself as "America's progressive news source." Its idea of good programming is putting folk singer Pete Seeger on the air every Fourth of July to talk about his father's communist ideology, just so listeners don't get too patriotic about America's founding and exceptionalism:
"In those early days, he linked up with the communist movement. They had a thing called the Composers' Collective. After all, in Russia they had collectives this and collectives that. And there, they decided, as skilled musicians, they would compose the new music for a new society."
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posted on
02/23/2011 5:37:02 PM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin; SunkenCiv
The DemocRATS are acting out of political selfishness in a time of national emergency. There are no good choices available. All we can do is either is either solve this problem in the most painless way possible under the circumstances, or we can implode. They haven’t even begun to make serious proposals.
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posted on
02/23/2011 5:41:44 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
To: Kaslin
what the PRODUCERs (those of you still working) will owe based on DEBT being added....."average of $735,312 per household paying federal income taxes."
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posted on
02/23/2011 5:45:07 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(I'm not a great man....I just believe in great ideas! Ronald Reagan)
To: goodnesswins
what the PRODUCERs (those of you still working) will owe based on DEBT being added....."average of $735,312 per household paying federal income taxes." Wow. We are all $cr3w3d!
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posted on
02/23/2011 5:56:52 PM PST
by
fanfan
(Why did they bury Barry's past?)
To: Kaslin
"Since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs, and if
some of
THOSE jobs are lost in this, so be it. We're broke."
Pelosi and the MSM pundits claim he said "if jobs are lost, so be it"
5
posted on
02/23/2011 5:57:38 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
To: Kaslin
When will someone point out, to Big Media, that we, the private sector ‘working families’ make less than union workers, don't get near the benefits that union workers get, yet are expected to pay out all the wages and benefits to the union workers? Will anyone stand up for those of us who work very hard yet see our paychecks dwindle in favor of the union workers who CAN'T LOSE THEIR JOBS??
To: goodnesswins
Most folks outside places like FR really don’t understand this yet. But they will - most of them anyway.
To: Kaslin
It is NOT the Republican Legislators against the Unions. It is the Unions against the Private sector ‘working families’ who pay for all the perks the Unions get. We must have a voice!
To: Kaslin
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posted on
02/23/2011 6:09:34 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: musicman
Make sure Ben doesn't run out of ink printing all that money - with nothing backing it up!
Obama bamboozled millions... gave them the old 'okee doke.'
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posted on
02/23/2011 6:45:14 PM PST
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
To: BobP
Make sure Ben doesn't run out of ink printing all that money I guess when the ink on the note is worth more than the note Ben's job will be done.
To: AndyJackson
Let it close down. Let it stay closed down at least long enough to equal the cuts proposed in the original bill. Conservatives need to talk slowly and distinctly using small words and phrases such that a five year old or liberal college professor can understand.
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:12:02 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
To: BobP
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posted on
02/23/2011 10:01:09 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Clintonfatigued; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
02/24/2011 6:44:00 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
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posted on
02/25/2011 1:42:27 AM PST
by
TheOldLady
("I am optimistic... [and] greatly heartened by the response of America in 2010..." - Lazamataz)
To: SunkenCiv
"...average of $735,312 per household paying federal income taxes." My share's not going to get paid off in my lifetime.
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posted on
02/25/2011 1:44:51 AM PST
by
TheOldLady
("I am optimistic... [and] greatly heartened by the response of America in 2010..." - Lazamataz)
To: Kaslin
Democrats just
love their fellow communists:




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To: TheOldLady
Funny how Slick Willie claimed undeserved credit for the balanced budgets of the 1990s, which grew out of having stable, lower OPEC pricing and Republicans controlling Congress. And how it was marketed as being very important during the Clinton recession that carried on into GWB’s administration, when we were then hit with 9/11 as well as ever-rising OPEC pricing and Demwits rising in Congress.
It’s almost as if it was done to sell everyone on how no one needs that kind of fiscal discipline.
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posted on
02/25/2011 6:15:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
Funny...Hilarious. I can't stop laughing. </s>
To: TheOldLady
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posted on
02/25/2011 8:37:38 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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