No can see. Cliffnotes, please?
I think this will backfire - .
No can see. Cliffnotes, please?
No, it won't backfire at least not in the sense government spending will successfully be cut. The R's and the D's will dick around for awhile longer, posture and pose, bleat to their base's and then, when a deal is done, no one's funding will be less than it was before, everyone who has been missing work and parts of federal paychecks will be made whole and life, as we know it, will go on.
- but to bellyache about how bad the sequester has been such that they go to great lengths to punish the public rather than find ways to cut back.
But Ryan said he could do it in 10 years :shrug:
While it might be stylishly 'realist' to argue that it is no longer practical to do two year budgets, that does not change that THAT is what we NEED to be doing much the same that STOPPING the digging, however 'kooky' or unstylish it may be, is the ONLY way to stop the hole from getting deeper. Not slowing down. Not cutting back a tad here and there over 10 or 20 years while relying on subsequent elected leaders to be faithful to YOUR plan. Stop. NOW.
NOW.
Nope...wrong approach...as is usually advocated on this board. .
Strengthen the economy NOW...fix the budget NEXT. Get people back to work. Get businesses and individuals back to spending. Growth will help the deficit... .
NEXT, fix Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. Those are our problems. Nothing else in the budget really matters...Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security are the root of the problem...a problem that has been building for 50 years and made worse by past administration actions and a severe recession. Really basic concepts, really basic history.
Nope...wrong approach...as is usually advocated on this board.
Strengthen the economy NOW...fix the budget NEXT. Get people back to work. Get businesses and individuals back to spending. Growth will help the deficit...just like it is already doing. If you all weren't so blinded by your political agendas and lousy sources of information you could see that.
NEXT, fix Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. Those are our problems. Nothing else in the budget really matters...Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security are the root of the problem...a problem that has been building for 50 years and made worse by past administration actions and a severe recession. Really basic concepts, really basic history.
Nope...wrong approach...as is usually advocated on this board.
Strengthen the economy NOW...fix the budget NEXT. Get people back to work. Get businesses and individuals back to spending. Growth will help the deficit...just like it is already doing. If you all weren't so blinded by your political agendas and lousy sources of information you could see that.
If I go to buy a new car and ask for financing and my debt obligations exceed my income do you think I should get the car? Me getting the car will boost the economy and I will be spending (money I don't have and can't repay)!.
No, it won't backfire at least not in the sense government spending will successfully be cut.
Strengthen the economy NOW...fix the budget NEXT. Get people back to work. Get businesses and individuals back to spending. Growth will help the deficit...just like it is already doing.
Which actually has nothing to do with what I was discussing. I don't disagree with your later points, just that I don't think the public is going to be duped into thinking that the cherry-picked shutdowns aren't anything but political posturing. .
And what would be evidence that they weren't duped?