I care a lot less about whether there is a tax hike for the zillionaires hidden in the bill than I do about a lot of other things. Why is class warfare only a one way street favoring the pampered at the expense of the rest of us. If they make scads of money, that's great and I do not begrudge it to them but I think that there are a LOT of other neglected priorities of the conservative movement due to the single-minded mania of the Boehners and McConnells in servicing the rich.
1. These quislings (Boehner, McConnell and their allegedly Republican dupes) are giving Comrade O a $2.4 trillion taxpayer provided slush fund in time for his re-election run. IF he is re-elected, he will be able to take out SCOTUS. Bye, bye guns! Bye bye babies! Bye bye marriage as we know it.
2. As the talk show hosts and a handful in Congress have consistently pointed out, existing law provides that budgeting will add 7-8% per year to the previous year's spending level. That includes the near $trillion porkulus bill as a now permanent part of the baseline for budgeting purposes. The money may be spent in other ways but it will be spent. Money issues usually make my eyes glaze over and I normally have little passion for them but under Comrade O ably assisted by the GOP leadership surrendermonkeys, things have gotten completely out of hand. Under that existing baseline budgeting LAW, there are absolutely NO CUTS in spending. Just an irrelevant touch-up taking a miniscule amount off the massive spending increases and the addition of the interest on yet another $2.5 trillion in slush funds for the reds. That is, at best, a crap sandwich and has no chance whatsoever of being anything better.
3. Under John F. Kennedy's last budget (in peacetime), the level of spending was $100 billion but 60% was for defense. Even with two wars from the Bush and several new ones under Comrade O, we are not spending 25% of the fedbudget on defense and Comrade O will probably want to tell the military to run bake sales to buy ammunition. Today we are soon heading for 40 times that in nominal dollars. In fairness, I think Social Security was not included in the budget numbers until later but it was not that expensive either. OTOH, despite the ocean of spending, there has been no COLA increase in Social Security to individual recipients for the last two years. Comrade O has redefined cost of living conveniently NOT to include food and gasoline prices, you see. No sense wasting valuable gummint resources on the mostly white old folks (there, I said it!). ACORN has not suffered proportionately nor the EPA, the Edumakashun Department, nor the welfare schemes.
4. This crap sandwich also sets up some vague scheme to make further "cuts" in spending growth but fully half must come out of defense spending. This does not bother Boehner, McConnell, Cantor, Kyl and many more frauds so long as the zillionaires continue to be coddled. Until Comrade O is safely re-elected to finish ruining our country, they will not be cranking up the taxes on Americans of modest incomes, just gasoline prices and taxes, heating fuel and taxes and the indirect costs of commie environmental whackoism and stuff like that.
5. I really don't care what the commies say or purport to "think" about us. It makes no difference whether the commies are in gummint, the Demonrat Party, the Lamestream Media, university faculties or the gummint primary and secondary skewel system.
6. NOTHING about this sellout is anything remotely approaching a gain for our side, incremental or otherwise. Hey, we give Comrade O a $2.5 trillion slush fund to scatter around in election year, but, don't complain, he left us a dime as a tip for funding his re-election and our destruction.
7. But, hey, how do I REALLY FEEL?????
Comrade O … IF he is re-elected … Bye, bye guns! babies! marriage as we know it.
Exactly. This is properly Point #1. This is Armageddon. This is so bad I’m even willing to accept a terrible compromise debt ceiling bill IF it puts the cause to oust the hostile occupier of the Oval Office in a better position (this is debatable but IMHO it does put us in a better position to win the Big War in 2012) to win in 2012.
… there are absolutely NO CUTS in spending … vague scheme to make further "cuts" in spending growth …
Yea, DC sucks. Reducing expenditure increases from 7-8% to something a little bit lower is NOT cuts. However, part of the calculation of “default” by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government does look at this idiotic budgeting scheme as cuts so it achieves a goal of helping rather than hurting the economy. In this day and age, perception becomes a reality and the real perception of default by the U.S., even though it was all manufactured by Marxists in Washington, became a reality that to win in 2012 you could not be blamed for if an agreement wasn’t reached. The GOP averted being blamed for an economic crisis with the deal.
I really don't care what the commies say or purport to "think" about us.
Neither do I and neither does the GOP leadership IMHO. However, they DO CARE ABOUT the general election voting public. And unfortunately that broad group of people includes a lot of misinformed but well-meaning people and an all too significant radical socialist America-hating Left. To successfully win an election with this electorate, a winning candidate needs to appeal to voters beyond the Tea Party movement. Reality bites.
Last one: I care a lot less about whether there is a tax hike for the zillionaires hidden in the bill.
Please don’t fall for the commies class warfare shtick. Believe it or not, the wellbeing and happiness of all Americans is intertwined and joined-at-the-hip with the fortunes of our wealthiest citizens (remember President Reagan's "trickle down economics" - it's true). That is just a part of capitalism and it is what fuels the juices of job-creating entrepreneurship. That’s a good thing, not a bad thing. So don’t let the Lefts’s socialist class warfare rhetoric allow you to think the "zillionaires" are the enemy. They are most certainly NOT.