none of those useless eaters can understand the business model of a lemonade stand...
Posted on 08/17/2011 2:46:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Together We Can Beat the Deficit We did it in the 1990s and we can do it again today. By PATTY MURRAY, MAX BAUCUS AND JOHN KERRY
Our country has long been a beacon of light in the world because the American people always come together when times are tough. Over the past few months, in debating the debt ceiling and deficit reduction, that light of common cause has appeared to flicker at times in our nation's capital. As appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—12 members of Congress charged with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade—we hope to remedy that.
This is not going to be an easy task. Washington is mired in gridlock, and pundits and special interests from both sides of the aisle are already heaving boulders at our committee. But this issue is too critical to be examined through the typical ideological lens. And if this committee is going to deliver the results Americans deserve, we are going to need to meet eye-to-eye as people despite outside efforts to divide us as partisans.
Make no mistake, this is an important moment for our country. Millions of Americans are still hurting, working overtime to pay the bills, struggling to find a job and a way forward for their families. Trillions of dollars in private capital are sitting on the sidelines because businesses are not yet confident enough in our economy or in their lawmakers to invest in the future. These families and businesses are demanding that this new committee work together to overcome the partisanship and brinksmanship of recent months and put our fiscal house in order.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
We’re from the Government and we’re here to help.
Oh yes they are. /s Good call...
The Republicans held majority control in both houses of Congress from 94-2000.
Is it possible that the writers of this piece are not aware of this?
In the late 90s we had tax cuts and less government. Let’s do it.
We need to rid the congress and senate of these Ignorant Communist once and for all..They have been making a laughing stock out of this wonderful country..God know I would never have believed this country would have been taken over by these communist bastards..but it has..now they are making our laws and rules for us..Time to pray to God for our country back
So Obama has assigned this trio of arsonists to extinguish the deficit fire he and they started.
Here’s how its done...not that these three twinkle-toes would ever figure it out...
Warren Harding figured it out in 1920...
Congress and the Executive Branch have lots to do.
So far they’re not doin’ it right..
Its been done before..
Harding cut the government’s budget nearly in half between 1920 and 1922. The rest of Harding’s approach was equally laissez-faire. Tax rates were slashed for all income groups. The national debt was reduced by one-third. The Federal Reserve’s activity, moreover, was hardly noticeable. As one economic historian puts it, “Despite the severity of the contraction, the Fed did not move to use its powers to turn the money supply around and fight the contraction.” 2 By the late summer of 1921, signs of recovery were already visible. The following year, unemployment was back down to 6.7 percent and was only 2.4 percent by 1923.
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1319&loc=r
BTW..ole Warren ALSO fixed immigration...
Mr. Harding signed into law the Emergency Quota Act[3] which sought to control immigration following World War I and preserve the distinctive American culture by ensuring the majority of immigrants came from the historically compatible cultures of Northern Europe. This law aimed to bring wages of hard working Americans under control by limiting immigration to 3% of the 1910 census. It was followed on by a similar act in 1924, after Mr. Harding’s death.[4]
A Warren Harding prescription...if filled ...would ignite the afterburners on the US job machine and the economy. However DC would have to yield on a tremendous amount of power. Our job as We the People...is to persuade them of the “utility” ..shall we say..of doing so. In all probability the same minds that made the mess...aren’t capable of the solution however.
BTW any takers that ‘Bammy couldn’t even tell you that Warren Harding was one of his predecessors in office?
Even more telling about what our betters in the RinoCracy think of a Constitutional President..
http://www.usnews.com/listings/worst-presidents/warren-harding
Three dim bulbs talkin’ about flickering light ....
are you sure that isn’t Dummy Wasserman-Schultz on the left?
the faaaar left
That's right. There was welfare reform, too. The freeloaders had to get their own jobs.
Let's do THAT again!
Clinton also had the benefit of Reagans trickle down tax break. He skated for years on that money- $$$$$.
( he raised taxes, ruined it all, and gave Bush a recession. Let's NOT do that part again!)
Why isn’t Washington State embarrassed to have such a stupid Senator as Patty US Mint Murray??
I mean, really? It is such a beautiful place. Is the drinking water contaminated with lead or something?
Why isn’t Washington State embarrassed to have such a stupid Senator as Patty US Mint Murray??
I mean, really? It is such a beautiful place. Is the drinking water contaminated with lead or something?
We are, it’s just the stupid libs keep voting her back into office.
none of those useless eaters can understand the business model of a lemonade stand...
p.s....booo...
Yooo Hooo... I'm over HERE!!!
Because you already know their solution.
1. Raise taxes on the rich.
2. Spend more money tomorrow -- on "infra-structure".
3. Cut spending ten years hence. Maybe...
Pull the string in each of their chests...and that's what you'll get.
Ready, you lovable little Congresscritters, you?
Okay...here goes:
Stop spending container ships full of money that you don't own on worthless, bullsh!t government programs that we don't want, that we can't afford, and that makes us all slaves to insufferable assholes like you. Instead, let us keep our money and spend it ourselves, as we see fit, as free citizens of a free republic.
I'm sorry, did you guys get that, or do we need to repeat it 14.7 trillion times until you do?
ROTFLOL
Three idiots speak.
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