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Scott "Rufio" Feather
This downgrade is showing, quite literally, how dumb and uninformed most Americans are.
That speach offered nothing new.
He needs to stop talking and start developing ways to incent companies and indivduals who have been hoarding cash to put it to work.
That speach offered nothing new.
He needs to stop talking and start developing ways to incent companies and indivduals who have been hoarding cash to put it to work.
Pubs and Dems had a deal working that would have cut 5T (4T cuts + 1T revenue), but the Tea Party wouldn't sign off on any revenue measures. So that idea that the Tea Party is the only ones serious about deficit reduction is ridiculous. A larger deficit reduction plan was in place, and would have been able to be passed if the TP had gone with Boehner. Instead they forced everyone to come up with a dumbed down version of a debt deal, and it is no surprise that it sucked.
Arlington always has great posts. I've said that for years. He is the best poster on these boards. His description of this situation...and the Tea Party....is, to borrow a quote from Mona Lisa Vito, "dead on balls accurate".
That speach offered nothing new.
He needs to stop talking and start developing ways to incent companies and indivduals who have been hoarding cash to put it to work.
BKF's top 5 posters year in and year out:
1) Arlington
2) Diego
3) PH
4) TR
5) Moonzzzzz
Perhaps the genius businessmen in the branch of Congress that can actually introduce legislation should come up with some ideas and introduce them as legislation.
Hey at least Alaska still has a AAA rating.
Got some ideas?
From what I've read, the TP caucus is composed of about 60-70 members. That leaves a clear majority of 365 members. The reason this deal failed is poor leadership on both sides. The far left wasn't going to vote for this either if entitlements were cut.
Myself, I think that, other than revamping HC, the economic picture would have played out almost exactly the same way under a McCain presidency. The massive government spending would have been the same, almost certainly. I am continually surprised that Pubs claim the mantle of economic austerity, despite never having acting under such principles when in office. And I'm not sure how you first and foremost attack the men trying to plug the dam, and give only secondary blame to the architects of its weakening in the first place.
I criticize the TP because they are ideological absolutists, which is next to useless when it comes to actually governance. The debt ceiling crisis only highlighted their basic childishness toward governance. Obama certainly was inexperienced three years ago, I'll grant, but his trending towards the middle, and toward compromise, over the last twelve months makes him seem the most reasonable man in the picture, at this point. IMO.
I don't want ideologues. I want qualified, experienced adults who can work with other politicians who see things differently, and come up with reasonable compromise solutions where everyone gives a little in exchange for the greater good. The TP seems incapable of that as a core principle. They want only to attack and demonize, and are unwilling to compromise (indeed, they seem to think that any sort of reasonable give-and-take is some sort of a betrayal, which is effectively poisoning Congress's ability to react to challenging times). But this is what happens when one of our two parties gives the reins over to the fringe.