From The Frying Pan Into The Fire
Posted November 14th, 2007 by Da King
The country is $9 trillion in debt, a tribute to the federal government's boundless capacity to spend our hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Thanks a bunch, politicians. Can you imagine raking in $3 trillion every year and still needing MORE to make ends meet ? That's exactly the federal government's story. Hard to fathom that. Some of us blame it on the Democrats (rightfully), and others blame it on the Republicans (rightfully). We can blame it on anyone we like, but that doesn't change our situation one iota. If we don't do something about this $9 trillion, pretty soon we could be talking about REAL money (rimshot).
The president is finally beginning to show some small signs of becoming a conservative, after spending money like a drunken sailor for the first 6 years. Way too little, way too late, George. The leading Democratic presidential candidates are all proposing tons of NEW government spending at the same time they excoriate Bush for his spending, making the Democratic claim to the mantle of fiscal responsibility nothing but a pathetic punch line. Call me crazy, but when the Iraq war finally does wind down, and it will, then perhaps the sensible thing to do would be to restore some measure of fiscal responsibility to the country, before we are all trading in our dollars for yuans.
But I guess fiscal responsibility doesn't sell as well to potential voters as "free health care for everyone !", or "free government day care !", or "Social Security problem ? What Social Security problem ?". We don't have serious statesmen anymore. We have cheap panderers, almost literally offering a "dollar for your vote". Don't we as citizens have a civic duty to demand something more than free goodies from our politicians ? Have we abandoned all sense of responsibility to future generations ? We've gone from the greatest generation to the me-me-me generation.
When it comes to dealing with the real problem, which is government SPENDING, you might as well save your breath rather than talk to most Democrats, because to them, when you say "reduce spending", they think you said "kill the poor", and it doesn't matter if 'the poor' make $80K per year. It is virtually impossible to have any kind of legitimate policy discussion with people like that. What is truly frightening is that the Republicans mucked things up so badly that those same left-leaning simpletons will probably expand their power in 2008. That's why I called this column 'from the frying pan into the fire'. If any of you truly believes that the Democrats have any fiscal plans OTHER than increasing spending and raising taxes, then you need to stop smoking that stuff, it is rotting your brain.
That piddly $9 trillion doesn't even seem to be a campaign issue, because I don't hear any of our presidential wannabees talking about it, which makes me wonder if we even have any true conservatives on the Republican side of the candidate roster, you know, the kind that would be horrified by that much debt. It seems like the political battle on the fiscal front these days is between the social statist Democrats and the security statist Republicans. The only guy who would actually try to cut government spending is probably Ron Paul, and he has about as much chance of being elected president as I do, and I wouldn't want him any way, because he'd ruin the progress that has been made in Iraq. It's too late to turn back now on that score. We have to see it through, even though that too is going to cost us big.
What we need is for one candidate to step forward and outline a positive vision and course to restore fiscal sanity to this country, before it's too late. This country is so great that we can turn it all around on a dime if we choose to, but we have to start choosing responsibility instead of gratification. The idea was to leave our children a better country, remember ? We won't do that by saddling them with insurmountable debt, and don't forget this either: the enormous tsunami of debt hasn't even arrived yet, but it's coming, via Social Security and Medicare when the baby boomers retire. Time to wake up, america.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:02 am
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November 14th, 2007 at 11:27 am
King, that little comment that precedes this one has a serious sound of Rev Red. When people start citing blogs like Bushtheidiot or what ever that is they just sound like good old Rev Red.
Let me say that it isn't too late to turn this ship around and get it righted but after 2008 if the Democrats get their way it will be too late by 2010. This nation can't possibly survive a Democrat takeover, but as you say, there is no reason to believe that Republicans WILL do any different. All that pandering for votes seems to me to be something that we can't manage to get out from under.
We must avoid any more strong movements to the socialist state that the Democrats seem bound to get us to and most Republicans aren't willing to fight against.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Agreed. A Democratic victory in '08 would be a disaster for America.
As for Bush being an idiot ….. well, in many ways he is.
But not for the reasons the liberals & Dims say. Rather, those two dysfunctional groups hate Bush becasue he 1) stands up for America and 2) is religious, both of which are an anathema to the Left.
Here's where George Bush is an idiot:
His amnesty plan for illegals was dead wrong, but the Dims favor it. Bush should have had the borarders fully controlled by now, but as it is, they leak like a sieve.
Bush's excessive spending is wrong, wrong, wrong. But the Dims loved it — and what way more.
Bush's calling Islam a religon of peace was pure multicultural crap. This is right out of the Dim's playbook.
And, Bush is fighting a p.c. war against the Islamofascists when instead he should go all out.
Yes indeed, Bush has his faults. But still, he was sure a better thing for American than either of those two sorry a** alternatives he beat — Algore (2000) and John F'ing Kerry (2004.) Imagine Ozone Al in the Oval Office!
November 15th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I think that Ron Paul blog post was automatically generated spam. I almost deleted it like I do with other spam, but I guess I'll let it stand.
If we take any huge steps toward socialism with a new Democrat president and a Democrat congress, it could do enormous long-term damage to this country and throw us into another major depression. We are probably going to go thru a recession very soon in any case, but the Democrat's plans would have the effect of striking a match to gasoline, making the fire a lot bigger and more difficult to put out.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I think I agree with most of this post King. Controlling spending, as Clinton with a GOP Congress were able to do, is desirable.
Left unsaid in your post, however, is what I fear is your default position, it is….domestic spending must be reduced but never wasteful (and I mean wasteful) defense spending, including spending on wars of choice.
Would your call for reduced spending, which I embrace, include defense related spending?
November 15th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I think the government wastes enormous amounts of money in defense spending, just like they do in every other area, so, yes, I'm sure military spending could be reduced.
While I commend your wish to reduce government spending, I'm left to wonder how you would accomplish it, since it seems you are FOR all the big government policies of the Democrats. You support socialized medicine, and you supported the expansion of S-CHIP up into the middle class. Such policies are directly at odds with reducing federal spending.