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Harry Reid: Concern About Runaway Spending Is 'Anarchy'??!!!
Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2013 | Larry Elder

Posted on 10/10/2013 4:23:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

A national network reporter, during an interview about about the government shutdown, actually told me: "Democrats believe government should do some things. Republicans don't believe government should be doing anything." Where had we heard that characterization of the GOP?

"'Anarchist'? Why in the world wouldn't I use the term anarchy?" said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in a CNN interview. "That's what they are. They're anarchists. They don't believe in government -- at any level. ... They're anarchists, just like they were at the beginning of the 20th century. ... They're not blowing up buildings and they're not killing people. But they're throwing monkey wrenches in the wheels of government." That a reporter parroted the line almost verbatim explains why Obama and the Democrats believe they will win the PR battle over which party voters will blame for this partial government shutdown.

Well, forgive tea party Republicans, elected to stop Obamacare, for actually going to Washington D.C. to try to stop Obamacare. Politicians literally attempting to fulfill campaign promises. Imagine.

Ted Cruz, the brash new Republican senator from Texas, believes, as do many economists and most doctors, that Obamacare is a bad idea and will undermine, not improve, our healthcare system.

Cruz believes that America's fast-growing debt imperils the nation's future. The Congressional Budget Office thinks so, too. In a recent report, the CBO calls America's spending and borrowing levels "unsustainable":

"The gap between federal spending and revenues would widen steadily after 2015 under the assumptions of the extended baseline, CBO projects. By 2038, the deficit would be 6 1/2 percent of GDP ... and federal debt held by the public would reach 100 percent of GDP. ... With such large deficits, federal debt would be growing faster than GDP, a path that would ultimately be unsustainable."

Even President Barack Obama once used the very same term. "The long-term deficit and debt that we have accumulated," the President told a Rio Rancho, N.M., town hall crowd in 2009, "is unsustainable."

And many economists say America's true debt is higher than the often-cited $16 trillion. America's real debt -- including unfunded liabilities and entitlements like federal loan guarantees, deposit insurance, Medicare and Social Security obligations -- is closer to $70 trillion. To this, the Democrats want to add Obamacare, described by Forbes columnist Peter Ferrara as "the biggest single spending bill in world history."

Look at the shape of the other three major entitlement programs:

Social Security: Ten years after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the original Act, over 40 workers supported each retiree. Soon the number of workers per retiree will be 2.5-to-1. We still refuse to allow workers to invest their Social Security money in the stock market. Chile and some 30 other countries have allowed their workers to put their money in market-based investments, with much better returns for retirees.

Medicare: In 1965, the projection for its cost in 1990 was $3 billion. ($12 billion in 1990 dollars.) The actual 1990 cost was $98 billion, higher than estimated by a factor of 8. The unfunded liability for Medicare, according to the 2013 Medicare Trustees' report, is $43 trillion -- a $7 trillion increase over their 2010 report.

Medicaid: This program, begun in 1965 and run jointly by the federal government and the states, provides health and long-term care coverage to the poor. For many states it is the fastest growing budgetary item. Enrollment in Medicaid grew 2.5 percent in 2013, but is expected to grow 8.8 percent in 2014.

Economist Milton Friedman long advocated simply giving the money directly to the poor. He called it a "negative income tax" -- or a direct payment to poor families. When you look at the amount of federal and state aid per poor family -- over $60,000 per year -- it would be cheaper to simply cut a check for every poor family.

Republicans like Ted Cruz believe Obamacare will reduce healthcare quality, increase -- not reduce -- the cost of health care and add another program whose projected costs are as likely to be as wrong as the projections were for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. More important, tea party Republicans, like Cruz, believe that health care and healthcare insurance, however desirable, are not rights, let alone "rights" paid for with someone else's money.

At one time a brash, young senator took then-President George W. Bush to task over the rising U.S. debt: "The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents. Number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic!"

Today Sen. Harry Reid would call that young Illinois senator -- and future president, Barack Obama -- an "anarchist."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: debt; debtlimit; dingyharryreid; governmentspending
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1 posted on 10/10/2013 4:23:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The endless litany of idiocy from the Left continues apace.


2 posted on 10/10/2013 4:26:21 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Kaslin

Wasn’t it a true anarchist who killex McKinley at the beginning of the 20th century?


3 posted on 10/10/2013 4:31:02 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: Kaslin

Amzing , it is the republicans who have passed bills to open Govt, it is the Reid and Dems and Bozo who has said they won’t sign those bills to open Govt and then they stand there with signs saying open Govt pay our bills


4 posted on 10/10/2013 4:37:27 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Kaslin

I know Reid really isn’t a stupid man. Therefore, he must be just another garden-variety liberal liar. But then aren’t they all?


5 posted on 10/10/2013 4:41:50 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Kaslin
Someone should schedule a thorough psychiatric evaluation for Harry Reid. I am fairly certain that he is mentally unfit to serve in his current position - or for that matter any position.
6 posted on 10/10/2013 4:42:02 AM PDT by USMA '71 ((Re-elect no one!))
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To: Kaslin

Sadly, The Harry Reid is Certifiably Insane. WHY do Nevadns not see this??


7 posted on 10/10/2013 4:50:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: USMA '71

To many punches to the head during his younger years as a pugilist.


8 posted on 10/10/2013 4:51:24 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: Kaslin

The socialist can not defend their policies in the public square, all they can do is demonize those that oppose them. They can get away with their lies because the lap dog media has chosen sides, they support the socialist.

I would advise the socialist and the media to review history. Unless they plan on going “North Korea” on the nation, there is no way that this will not eventually create a backlash.

The American people are being forcibly moved from where they want to be to the new improved utopia of the long held dreams of socialism.

The socialist know that we would not enter their utopia voluntarily and so have been slowly herding us into the cage. All in the name of “for the children”.

As someone who was alive in the 1950s I can tell you we have a lot less privacy or freedom today then we had back then (and less than the 1900s).

Somewhere along the way it was decided that only the government can provide our basic needs but only if we do what they say when they say it and are forbidden to do anything else.

Like the frog in the pot of water, we are feeling it getting to the boil, is there still time to jump out before we are all cooked?


9 posted on 10/10/2013 4:52:21 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: Ann Archy

Boycott Las Vegas and ket them know you are doing it because of Harry Reid and your problem will disappear in no time if enough people do it ...: )


10 posted on 10/10/2013 4:54:20 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yup. Leon Czolgosz.


11 posted on 10/10/2013 4:55:01 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Ann Archy

Harry Reid is not insane , he is an apostle of Barrack Obama.

When Obama tell Harry to do something , Harry does it.
He has no mind of his own. He is merely a flunky, a puppet.


12 posted on 10/10/2013 4:55:23 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Kaslin
They don't believe in government -- at any level.

Another bald-faced lie from the second-most prolific liar in Washington.

As a life-long Virginian, I do believe in government. I believe in a national-level government as it was envisioned by the Founders of this Nation and codified in the Constitution of the United States of America.

Of course, I'm NOT a republican, so maybe he was not talking about me. I believe in state-level government as envisioned by the Founders of this Commonwealth and codified and in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and the Virginia Constitution.

I do not believe in allowing governments to expand beyond those well-thought-out and carefully proscribed boundaries.

That does not make me an anarchist - it makes me a proud American and Virginian who has equal respect for both lawful authority and individual self-determination.

Of course, I am not a republican (they are too left-of-center for my taste) so maybe he wasn't talking about me.

13 posted on 10/10/2013 5:01:28 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: USMA '71

I’m pretty certain he was NEVER mentally fit to serve in the U.S. senate - the ROMAN senate? Maybe.


14 posted on 10/10/2013 5:02:51 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: Dr. Sivana
My great grandfather had to swear that he wasn't an anarchist (or polygamist) when he immigrated to the USA.

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15 posted on 10/10/2013 5:03:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Kaslin

Popeye and Granny Clampett got drunk, rolled in the hay and produced Hairy Reed.


16 posted on 10/10/2013 5:58:54 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's foundinge fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Kaslin

That these DemonRATs, and their accomplices in the media, won’t acknowledge the obvious defects of Obamacare; tells us there is no shortage of stupidity in the fantasy land of the Unicorn Farm. All I can say is, after the train wreck, I hope we yell to the roof tops, “We told you so!”


17 posted on 10/10/2013 6:36:08 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Jack Hammer

“Ted Cruz, the brash new Republican senator from Texas, believes, as do many economists and most doctors, that Obamacare is a bad idea and will undermine, not improve, our healthcare system.”
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Cruz KNOWS this, it is not a matter of believing as if it were a religious thing, he KNOWS it, in the same way that he knows that his name is Ted Cruz. Anyone who does not know it is willfully ignorant. The idea that any economist or physician could believe otherwise is simply astounding to me considering the fact that there is literally zero possibility that Cruz is mistaken.


18 posted on 10/10/2013 6:58:08 AM PDT by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: jsanders2001

I like your idea of boycotting Vegas until Harry Reid is gone.


19 posted on 10/10/2013 8:48:34 AM PDT by alamogal
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To: alamogal

> I like your idea of boycotting Vegas until Harry Reid is gone.

He can get out of politics or just disappear Obama style...


20 posted on 10/10/2013 9:22:08 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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