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ORIGINAL: VioletGray
When I was young I used to read the "Tales from the Crypt" graphic novel. In there was a story that began mere seconds after an obsessive compulsive man had just murdered another man in his own home. The victim had served him dinner and given him a tour of his house, so all throughout the place he had left his finger prints on many things including silverware and antiques.
He decided that he had to clean everything he had touched before the police arrived, so he spent all night cleaning so obsessively that the following morning the cops arrived to find him still at the crime scene, engrossed to the point of ignoring their presence entirely. By the end of the story, as the cops were leading him out into the squad car he stopped, took a napkin out of his pocket and cleaned the very last thing: the doorknob. Then, smiling madly he gave the door a triumphant slam and followed the policeman off to jail.
The crux of the story was that his paranoia had driven him so mad that he became obsessed with the task itself and lost sight of why he was doing it in the first place.
First, let me give some quotes from Mitch McConnell:
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for Obama to be a one-term president."
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"I refuse to help Obama get reelected by marching republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy"
And here's a quote from Donald Trump just the other day, suggesting that the GOP should let the default happen so that Obama won't get elected:
"Frankly the Republicans would be crazy unless they get 100 percent of the deal that they want right now to make any deal"
"When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans' names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that’s Obama."
Now why do I include Donald Trump even though he's not a political player? One, because I do believe that his approach exemplifies the strategy of the Republican party to an extent and two, because Fox News, an important branch of the republican party has decided for some reason to give him a platform on-air to spew his verbal waste.
The START treaty. The Debt Ceiling. Do you know what these things have in common? They used to be pretty much routine and now they're not. The people in the GOP voted 19 times to raise the debt ceiling under Bush. Why is it so hard now?
Because the Republicans have lost sight completely of their vow to serve the country. The reason for their being has become to oppose Obama on everything. EVERYTHING. And they are willing to let us go into default, something that has never happened before, they are willing to hold the world economy hostage to stop Obama from doing anything that might help him in 2012. They are more worried about Obama getting elected than the welfare of the American people.
The obsessive man from the story is the GOP. The "task" is complete shutdown of Obama. They are so obessed that when the default leads us away in to the squad car, perhaps they'll be smiling madly too.
VioletGray's questioning of why the GOP voted to raise the debt ceiling 19 times but refused to do it a 20th time is quite interesting.
Unfortunately, she's not going to like the answer: We, as a nation, cannot continue to fund the spending status quo. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Violet, it may interest you to know that right now the taxes collected per year only covers about 2/3rds of the existing federal budget--that's a shortfall which means we're spending money we don't have. So where is the final 1/3rd coming from to cover the shortfall? Well we're borrowing from China and the Federal Reserve is printing money out of thin air. This vast over-printing of paper money does two things: drives down the actual value of the currency and causes inflation to rise. Why should you care about the value of our currency and inflation? Because those two metrics greatly affect you, me and everyone else's spending power; and makes the cost of living increase across the board, which makes life harder for nearly everyone--especially those at the lower end of the socieo-economic scale. We can't afford to maintain the spending status quo and we certainly can't default on our debt due to the disastrous ramifications it would have. So what's the solution? The only solution we as a nation have is to raise the debt ceiling--again--and then commit to and follow through on spending cuts. Unfortunately, neither party is willing to do that. Republicans, when they're on the campaign trail, talk a great game of cutting spending, smaller government, et al, but when they get into office they fall right into line with the tax and spend mantra of the socialist liberal left. If I had my way I would cut as many people off the Social Security rolls as I could and I would eliminate Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare and Medicaid are two bloated social welfare programs that are simply out of control and the time to cut the cord is now. Back to Social Security...the only people who should be receiving Social Security are the ones who have worked and paid into it for 40+ years. Simply put, I would do an exhaustive audit and anyone who doesn't fit that single eligibility criteria would stop receiving benefits immediately. Furthermore, I'd cut all spending in the federal budget by 25% or more across the board. The last thing I would do is lower taxes to actually increase and provide companies with incentives to grow and expand which would create more jobs, which would mean more people would be paying taxes and the government would have more money in its coffers despite the lower taxes overall. See here's the thing that nobody on the left seems to understand: You can decry the "evil" rich all you want, you can say that they don't "pay" their "fair" share. When the truth of the matter is that if you want people at the bottom of society to benefit financially those at the top have to also benefit because they are the ones who make all jobs possible.
And finally, apparently when VioletGray talks about the "Obama obessed GOP" she has no memory or recollection of the sheer hateful vitriol the liberal left obsessively spewed at Bush II for eight years--or Bush I and Ronald Reagan before that. Or maybe she's typical of left-wing zealots who see no problem with throwing stones at the "opposition" but then has the tamarity to cry foul when the "opposition" casts stones at someone she supports.
Bottom line: 1) This once great nation is totally fucked because we have elected representatives on both sides of the isle that are too spineless to tell their constituency no when it comes to spending and 2) some really tough times are coming if we continue our tax and spend ways.
One truism of politics: Pork-barrel spending is spending done in someone else's dictrict.
< Message edited by gaybottomslave -- 7/28/2011 5:37:18 AM >
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