Posted on 12/04/2012 2:09:32 PM PST by RightSideNews
(Washington, D.C.) U.S. Congressman Paul Broun, M.D. (GA-10) today released the following statement in reaction to President Obama’s dismissal of Republican efforts to provide a solution to the looming fiscal cliff:
“Democrats have basically told Republicans to either raise taxes, or go to hell,” said Broun. “Forcing us to choose between hurting families and small businesses or going off the fiscal cliff is not only counter-productive – it simply doesn’t make sense for righting our nation’s fiscal crisis. The Democrats’ math just doesn’t add up; there is no way to tax our way out of this mess.
Even if they attempt to tax every millionaire and billionaire in America at 100% of their earnings, it still won’t even begin to put a dent in the deficit our federal government is currently running.
The only way to begin restoring limited government is to attack the crux of our problem and drastically scale back this nation’s spending. Unfortunately, this impasse is exactly what the President wants – for the fiscal cliff debate to focus on demonizing the nation’s job creators instead of on how his tax-and-spend policies kill jobs and hurt small businesses.
If he’s really on the side of the middle class, the President should lighten the load of debt he’s saddled them with over the last four years.”
Representative Paul C. Broun, Jr. was elected in July of 2007 to serve the Tenth District of Georgia. Since his arrival in Congress, he has been appointed to the House Homeland Security Committee, the House Committee on Natural Resources, and currently serves as Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee for the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Dr. Broun grew up in Athens, Georgia where he attended Athens High School and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1967 with a B.S. in Chemistry. In 1971, he received his Medical Doctor degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. An internship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon and a residency at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama followed.
I been at FR since 1998. There is not enough bandwidth for me to post the number of times I've seen this same questioned posted?
Isn't it time the conservatives leave the republican party? 14 years is long enough!
Dems know more about meth than about math
They should pass their solution and let the dems and obama do what they will but they should syay in sesssion as long as they can. I wouldn’t have said that in the past, when congress isn’t in session they aren’t spending money or doing harm but now we need them if for nothing else to offer verbal objections, if the’ll even do that.
Paul Broun and Tom Graves are two of our most conservative US reps from GA. I believe both of them voted agains’t raising the debt ceiling and also against’ that stupid super majority and almost every other lame brained idea that Congress has come up with. If we had 50 or 60 more just like them maybe we would have a chance agains’t the Dems.
That’s our old barn! Family Dollar store there now. ;>)
if theykeep spending more than they can ever hope to take in, doesnt matter - it just won’t work.
dems don’tcare,it’s not about taxes. this is open warfare on the makers. this is blaming the productive for liberal out of control government spending for decades.
this is cuba.
and eff the rinos for being gutless, knowing what this really is about and doing nothing about it.
Here’s what I think House Republicans should do. Approve Simpson/Bowles and give Democrats and 0bama plenty of time to make themselves look like hypocritical idiots trashing it, then vote ‘present’ to whatever piece of crap borrow-borrow spend-spend legislation 0bama or the other ‘Rats come up with. I, unfortunately, believe this is about the best House Republicans can do for themselves, and the country, at this point in time.
I wanted to “SEE ROCK CITY” when I was a kid. As we drove past a barn one day with the sign on the roof I asked my mother, “Mom? Can we go see Rock City?”
My mother, being the negative type, responded “Son, I doubt if we’ll ever see Little Rock.”
I’m now just as negative on the GOP.
OF COURSE the scumbag rats want the GOP to raise taxes.
That would be the end of the GOP. For real.
Excellent!
This guy Broun nails it, and every decent GOP congressman and senator should memorize those words and repeat them over and over and over again.
bttt
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