Posted on 07/27/2011 3:16:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
If no agreement is reached, cuts must ensue.
Obama will be deciding what is cut.
And he will be infuriating people as he cuts.
So his and the Democrats bluff, is just that - a bluff.
They will speak in the media and blame every ounce of pain on Republicans, Conservatives and the Tea Party.
But come November 2012, it will be a housecleaning like no other, after a year of economic pain that will come with downgrades, interest rate hikes, the Federal government slowing on payments to Federal employees, contractors, States, Social Security and medicare.
If your car is out of control and picking up speed, you turn off the road and crash BEFORE you pick up even more speed and the crash is even worse.
we the People need to convince Congress that IT NEEDS TO SPEND ONLY WHAT IT TAKES IN - EVERY SINGLE YEAR; AND IT NEEDS TO START IT’S VERY FIRST CUTS IN BLOATED GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS by cutting government functions in 2012 along the lines of this list:
_________________________________________________________________________
Education__________________ $129.8 billion
Transportation (I propose
a limit of $10 billion)_________ $84.5 billion
Basic research______________ $18.7 billion
Agriculture, forestry
, fishing and hunting _________ $32.8 billion
Fuel and energy_____________ $26.9 billion
Pollution abatement_________ $10.9 billion
Protection of biodiversity
and landscape_______________ $13.9 billion
Housing development_______ $35.5 billion
Community development_____ $25.7 billion
Recreational and
sporting services_____________ $4.1 billion
General Government
(I propose cutting the
current amount in half)_______ $16.6 billion
Welfare (eliminate)_________ $495.0 billion
Grants to States
for Medicaid________________ $276.2 billion
R & D Health
(includes NIH)______________ $36.1 billion
Total reduction to annual
spending_________________ $1,206.7 billion
_________________________________________________________________________
The problem is after 2 years of unchecked liberal rule, there’s no room left to compromise.
Someone is now going to take the hit.
“But, if the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party becomes just a rule-or-ruin minority, then they might just as well have formed a separate third party and gone on to oblivion.”
It is not the Tea Party which is headed for oblivion.
Two years!?
Didn't the RATS take over both Houses of Congress in 2006?
Sowell’s right. It’s not about abandoning principles, it’s about doing what you can, when you can, without hurting your future chances.
And the GOP came so close to taking the Senate in 2010. If the GOP now controlled Harry Reid’s positoion, bills would not be tabled. Long ball or Pickett’s Charge?
Cut?
Why not totally eliminate every one of those categories except transportation and block grants to states for MediCaid?
We’ve got to work hard to take back the WH and the Senate to undo what Obama, Reid and the leftists have done the last 5 or so years.
God bless Thomas Sowell.
Bump
Needs repeating. Bravo to Thomas Sowell for speaking out.
The people with long knives out for Boehner and House Republicans today have made these people deliriously happy today:
They did. In theory W was a “check” on liberal rule.
Obama has destroyed the economy. It is not going to get better next year. Nothing is going to change those two facts.
If Boehner’s plan does not pass and the debt limit is not raised, then the dims and the media are going to spend the next 15 months pinning that on the “Tea Party” Republicans. Blame for the failing economy will pass from Obama to conservatives. I know they can do it because I’ve seen it work before—Hurricane Katrina, 2008 market collapse, Abu Grahib, etc.—Bush’s Fault.
Hello to Four more years of Obama and Speaker of the House Pelosi. Goodbye to the very slim remaining chance of pulling out of permanent economic collapse from crushing debt.
Consider 2 things—
1. In order to get $1.2 trillion in spending cuts in one year as you suggest, what do you think the make up of Congress would have to be? 225 “conservatives” in the House, 61 “conservatives” in the Senate?
2. What do you think is the best way to get there?
Ditto for the people whose 99 weeks of unemployment has ALREADY run out; and the oil workers sidelined by Obama's executive orders after the BP oil spill.
Etc. etc. etc.
Propaganda FAIL on your part.
Cheers!
Sowell is generally right, but I think he's missing something. When will we ever get a chance to attack again? And why is now NOT the time to attack? Plus don't forget, Washington lost many battles for 5 years before finally winning.
He just makes great sense...one of the great common sense men. He is exactly right.
“The most basic fact of life is that we can make our choices only among the alternatives actually available. It is not idealism to ignore the limits of one’s power. Nor is it selling out one’s principles to recognize those limits at a given time and place, and get the best deal possible under those conditions.”
Finally, an article by an adult.
I know.
Were there any theoretical vetoes?
The reality is that as the default process goes far enough and takes out enough of the government-linked trash, laid off, government-linked trash won’t have much political power, either. True conservatives—private interests—will get what they want anyway. Time is on our side.
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