tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post1845671290477525558..comments2024-03-28T15:24:53.579-04:00Comments on Rational Nation USA: Obama Threatens Veto of Cut, Cap, and Balance in Politics as UsualLes Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-80100036736549534062011-07-19T12:20:36.315-04:002011-07-19T12:20:36.315-04:00JMJ - There is plenty to cut in the budget. Entitl...JMJ - There is plenty to cut in the budget. Entitlements can and should be reformed, the military industrial complex should be downsized... h*ll, I'm just repeating myself!<br /><br />I agree we must pay our debts, and the obvious answer to how you bring down the debt is... stop making more debt you can't control. <br /><br />I know this is tough to understand Jersey, but that's how real successful households and businesses do it when they find themselves in trouble. It's called AUSTERITY. This nation need to start practicing it, and soon.<br /><br />Oh I know all you liberals have the pat progressive answer... Just raise taxes and all will be well. Well, think that one through and see where it logically leads you. <br /><br />Addicts understand this better than progressives.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-25091167895365890162011-07-19T09:51:37.947-04:002011-07-19T09:51:37.947-04:00Les,
Here's what I had to day about this over...Les,<br /><br />Here's what I had to day about this over at My Daily Trek (http://leticiasworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/president-obama-threatens-to-veto-cut.html).<br /><br />Needless to say, no one answered my final question yet...<br /><br />"Easy there, Trekkie. Obama will never have to veto the bill - it will never get through the Senate.<br /><br />It'a a bad, dumb, simpleminded bill. It is crafted soley for political strategy. It would never pass, not even if the GOP has passed it back when they had all three branches of gov't in the 2000's (note that they did not pass any such bill back then).<br /><br />You'd need to pick up 20 hardcore conservative seats in the Senate, a hardcore conservative President, and maintain the hardcorers in the House for another two years before you could ever put to force such a bad, dumb law.<br /><br />Ain't.Gonna.Happen.<br /><br />Reagan himself wouldn't have signed that silly bill. <br /><br />This isn't some nefarious liberal conspiracy playing itself out only for your trained eyes, this is just plain reality. You guys are on the fringe on this issue. Not everybody else. You're the target audience for this nonsense and you're playing right into it. In real life we have to pay our bills. You have to try to understand that.<br /><br />You can't cut your way out of this. You know why? Because one of our biggest bills now comes from our borrowing, and you know how that goes. We're becoming like a teenager with one too many credit cards.<br /><br />But this bill? It's a bad, dumb, simpleminded bill. It does not address borrowing at all. In fact, it would absolutely necessarily increase borrowing to an easily foreseeable bad end. Again, the teenager comes to mind.<br /><br />We have no choice but to pay our debts, and they are mounting. SS and Medicare are direct taxes, we could easily fund them, but the military, the bank borrowing, the intragovernmental borrowing, the interest on the borrowing, is getting out of control.<br /><br />That's what we need to address. We have to stop the borrowing... and there's only one real, grown-up, necessary, smart way to do it... Guess what that is? ;)"<br /><br />Can you answer that?<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttp://jerseymcjones.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com