It’s a start. It’s not enough, not NEARLY enough. But it’s more than would have been done without the Tea Party, and in that sense, I guess you can call it a sort of “victory,” if you squint when you look at it.
That old proverb says “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This is that single step. I’m just not confident that who we’ve got in Washington right now will be willing to take any more steps to keep us going on the path to fiscal sanity.
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A couple weeks ago an acquaintance called saying he was starting the 9 hour drive to my home. 3 hours later he called and said he'd be late - he had gone west instead of east. That's what this bill is doing to us (you haven't read it, have you?): taking us trillions of dollars in the wrong direction.
It's not a start. It's a journey of a thousand miles, and the starting single step was onto a long-haul ferry heading the wrong direction.