Think, 1. Can government spend its way out of recession and economic malaise? 2. Is the role of the government the redistribution of wealth? 3. What happens when the private sector wealth otherwise known as tax revenue disappears?
Your rhetoric above is cute, but I want you and those in your camp to answer these questions. I want you to tell me and my camp how you propose to eliminate the deficit and grow the economy. I want some substantive answers rather than opinions and bluster.
76Ytown, Two brilliant posts, but please elaborate on how the federal government can drive economic expansion through job creation. I assume you mean the expansion of private sector jobs rather than federal government jobs.
The time for negotiation has passed. We have lurched haplessly toward European socialism and redistribution of wealth. The most recent election was a paradigm shift as the takers outvoted the makers. It will be several generations and a decline of American Exceptionalism prior to any shift back towards common sense. The republican party and the democratic party put us in this position with years of unchecked federal expansion. The tea party evolved in response to the republican party's loss of core principals. It was comical to watch Boehner negotiate with himself over the last several weeks. This will be a short term political victory for the President, 2-3 months. What do you suggest we do about the deficit? This deal will ignore the core of the problem. Have you watched the decline of Europe as they have employed the President's preferred method of governance? We are treading the same path.
President Clinton triangulated to the center and realized the importance of negotiation and legislation WITH the other side of the aisle. President Obama has neither the desire nor the experience (the former community organizer and junior Senator from IL with less than one full term served) to govern effectively.
The reason we are discussing entitlement cuts: today's revenues are the same as they were in 2007 (pre-recession), yet entitlement spending has increased 30% since 2007. Obviously, this is unsustainable. Raising taxes on the 1 million job creators with incomes of $250-400K, Sub-chapter S small businesses, would kill this fragile economy. Raising taxes on the wealthiest 1% offsets less than 8 days of federal spending. Unfortunately, this message does not resonate with the average citizen. President Obama knows a divisive, lowest common denominator approach, class warfare ala soak-the-rich, engages the uninformed. There are some common sense approaches that could easily be employed, but these methods do not fit the European socialist model the President prefers to employ.
Let me rephrase my previous post before my Kent State English professor corrects my poor choice of driver description and others accuse me of being dispassionate about the plight of the poor. Unskilled, self-centered drivers are a national epidemic regardless of weather.
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
Progressives & Socialists,
Your silence in response to 3 simple questions is deafening.
December 31, 2012 at 5:17 p.m. permalink suggest removal
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
Think,
1. Can government spend its way out of recession and economic malaise?
2. Is the role of the government the redistribution of wealth?
3. What happens when the private sector wealth otherwise known as tax revenue disappears?
Your rhetoric above is cute, but I want you and those in your camp to answer these questions. I want you to tell me and my camp how you propose to eliminate the deficit and grow the economy. I want some substantive answers rather than opinions and bluster.
December 31, 2012 at 3:49 p.m. permalink suggest removal
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
76Ytown,
Two brilliant posts, but please elaborate on how the federal government can drive economic expansion through job creation. I assume you mean the expansion of private sector jobs rather than federal government jobs.
December 31, 2012 at 3:02 p.m. permalink suggest removal
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
Perhaps Cambridge is a proponent of Paul Krugman. Cambridge, I have one question: can we spend our way out of recession?
December 31, 2012 at 2:38 p.m. permalink suggest removal
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
The time for negotiation has passed. We have lurched haplessly toward European socialism and redistribution of wealth. The most recent election was a paradigm shift as the takers outvoted the makers. It will be several generations and a decline of American Exceptionalism prior to any shift back towards common sense. The republican party and the democratic party put us in this position with years of unchecked federal expansion. The tea party evolved in response to the republican party's loss of core principals. It was comical to watch Boehner negotiate with himself over the last several weeks. This will be a short term political victory for the President, 2-3 months. What do you suggest we do about the deficit? This deal will ignore the core of the problem. Have you watched the decline of Europe as they have employed the President's preferred method of governance? We are treading the same path.
December 31, 2012 at 1:46 p.m. permalink suggest removal
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
Cambridge,
If common sense and truth are whiny, I am whiny.
December 31, 2012 at 12:46 p.m. permalink suggest removal
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
President Clinton triangulated to the center and realized the importance of negotiation and legislation WITH the other side of the aisle. President Obama has neither the desire nor the experience (the former community organizer and junior Senator from IL with less than one full term served) to govern effectively.
December 31, 2012 at 12:24 p.m. permalink suggest removal
How will you be impacted after the US falls off cliff?
The reason we are discussing entitlement cuts: today's revenues are the same as they were in 2007 (pre-recession), yet entitlement spending has increased 30% since 2007. Obviously, this is unsustainable. Raising taxes on the 1 million job creators with incomes of $250-400K, Sub-chapter S small businesses, would kill this fragile economy. Raising taxes on the wealthiest 1% offsets less than 8 days of federal spending. Unfortunately, this message does not resonate with the average citizen. President Obama knows a divisive, lowest common denominator approach, class warfare ala soak-the-rich, engages the uninformed. There are some common sense approaches that could easily be employed, but these methods do not fit the European socialist model the President prefers to employ.
December 31, 2012 at 12:15 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Despite warning, Valley still scurried for snow supplies
Let me rephrase my previous post before my Kent State English professor corrects my poor choice of driver description and others accuse me of being dispassionate about the plight of the poor. Unskilled, self-centered drivers are a national epidemic regardless of weather.
December 27, 2012 at 3:10 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Despite warning, Valley still scurried for snow supplies
As a Las Vegas resident and a national traveler, poor drivers are a national epidemic regardless of weather.
December 27, 2012 at 1:17 p.m. permalink suggest removal