This isn’t even re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titantic, it’s moving around the salad forks.
“This isn’t even re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titantic, it’s moving around the salad forks.”
Good point.
But — I’d like to make a FEARLESS prediction, not only to you, but towards everyone reading this:
Congress is not now, nor will they ever, do much of ANYthing to really put the brakes on the runaway spending.
I didn’t see the numbers, but how did all those newly-elected conservative congresspersons vote? Were there many ‘nay’ votes? (I will grant Kudos to Bachmann for her vote against it).
I’ll wager that in the end, most of these new “fiscal firebrands” voted right there along with the “old elite” majority.
Nor are we going to see Paul Ryan’s ideas get very far in the coming year, or in 2012. Yes, they will make a few more cuts, but it’s going to be EXACTLY along the lines of “The Deal” that we just saw completed. That is to say, trim here, trim there, but don’t do anything to substantially change things, or switch tracks to avert the trainwreck that’s coming.
No.
The ONLY thing that may wake up the politicians and policy-makers will be the trainwreck itself.
The fiscal train, which is now careening out of control, must jump the tracks first in Ayn Randian style. Only then will it become politically possible (for politicians of ANY persuasion) to do what they must so that the train can be rerailed and made operable once more.
If it _can_ be made to run again, that is.
Most trains have more than one engine up front, running “in multiple”. Could the only way to get the train running again be to “break up the engines”, so to speak, and let them go their separate ways?
Lol, and, sadly, true.
Post of the day.