On Feb 27, 12:02 pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@On-
My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
36:42 -0600, amdx <
[email protected]>
wrote:
one border guard or one airport security guard.
But I guess Barry wants to make spending cut as
painful as possible.
Mikek
As I see it, if he were a responsible administrator, we should now
have on a web page somewhere EXACTLY how he will handle the sequester.
It should detail cuts to each department, how many positions or
furloughs this cut will involve, and how it will be administered..
imagine the out cry if he starts to micro manage every department in
every states that needs to cut spending
isn't figuring out how to make the budget add up, up to the
congress?
Instead of professionalism, we get doom and gloom, and the sensethat
the word came down from the WH to make the cuts as painful as possible
to the american people...
It has always been like that, when faced with cuts people pick the
most
painful thing they can find in the hope that they can get the public
all
fired up and scare the politicians to cancel the cuts
-Lasse
No, it is the EXECUTIVE branch that actually is supposed to do things.
All the legislative branch is supposed to do is APPROVE the budget.
Now, that may not be what has happened in recent years, but that is
more to do with power grabs by the congress, and timidity in the WH....
Not quite. Read the Constitution. ALL spending bills must passin
the House.
...Jim Thompson [snip]
Our g'vment is so broken, it sickens me.
Would a revolt from the middle to pass the Simpson-Bowles 'thingie'.
and stop all this ...ing around,
have a chance?
George H.
I think we have so many "beneficiaries" that there's no chance in hell
of reversal. The United States as we once knew it is gone, and the
United States is doomed to total collapse.
We can always hope that it results in civil war... I want so much to
shoot a few liberals (and some horse's asses, no matter their
political flavor ;-)
Hmm OK, guess I'm just hopeful.
'total collapse' is in no one's best interst.
Right, it's nasty. That's why I've been following the country's
finances and politics the past few years like never before. I read
the Treasury reports.
We're spending far, far more than we can afford. George, we were
spending $1.84 for every $1.00 in revenue the first two months of this
year. Yet, here's the President, telling us that spending 1.2% less
than he'd planned this year--which is still more than the previous
year--is impossible, that airplanes will fall from the sky, cats
sleeping with dogs, etc.
There isn't enough money on the planet--quite literally--to pay for
that. If we can't find a 1.2% efficiency improvement anywhere,
America's done.
And, instead of trying to save, to make the best use of the resources
we have, the President is deliberately trying to ensure the maximum
pain, chaos and fear, targeting vulnerable groups, colluding with Ray
LaHood and the union reps to disrupt air travel, defense, and more.
If a foreigner were trying to disrupt society--its infrastructure,
travel, and government services--for political aims, we'd call it
"terrorism."
It's getting ugly.
It all comes down to one fundamental misunderstanding, which the
President just repeated: half the country thinks the government is a
provider, without realizing that anything the government gives you
they have to take from someone first.
Obama said the economy will falter if the sequester takes effect
because people will have less money to spend, chopping demand for
goods and services. That's exactly wrong--deficit spending of
necessity takes money *from* the economy to fund its excesses, and
saddles us with debt.
The truth is the economy is already faltering, has never recovered,
and, on this course it's going to get worse. This redistribution
stuff doesn't fix the problems, it makes them worse. The Federalist
papers, Paine's Common Sense, Bastiat's "The Law," and many other
works all warned of it: a gov't used to take (forcibly) from some to
give to others is unstable, and leads to revolution.
Fortunately we all have cool jobs and fun toys.
James Arthur