![]() The Republicans want to repeal the entire health care bill that the Democrats passed. Borrowing tons of money is bad for the long term. The question is how do you do that? Cutting spending may cost jobs in the short term. If you really are worried about the deficit, then we need people to have jobs so they can start paying their taxes again. Expect a big show but watch the can get kicked down the road. Medicare? Social Security? Homeland Security? Department of Agriculture? Department of Energy? The Department of Justice? Every cut will be like extracting a wisdom tooth. Should we cut the military? That’s over $600 billion a year. They just don’t want you to shrink the government if they are benefiting somehow. ![]() Where else are the cuts coming from?Īmericans always talk about shrinking the size of government. You can talk about cutting the National Endowment for the Arts but that is only one hundredth of 1 percent of the deficit. Bush talked about it but the government grew even more under Bush. Reagan talked about it but the government grew under Reagan. Now cutting taxes is an easy thing to do. And even though that was probably the right thing to do, it doesn’t feel like it when the bank that got money is handing out bonuses while they hand you a foreclosure notice. It seems like all the banks and other fat cats got money to prop them up. And maybe it is being fixed but not fast enough for people who are hurting or out of work. So Obama didn’t break the country but he said he could fix it. I like infrastructure spending as long as we are all in business still after it is done. If all this roadwork was from stimulus money, that’s great. I am not a road engineer but it seems to me that it hasn’t been run very efficiently and it is taking way too long. I never know when people will be able to get into my store or out of it. All of the businesses along that stretch of highway from Valley Springs to Wallace are hurting. I could use it after the almost two months of roadwork along Highway 12. The Feds don’t like the paralysis they see coming. A day after the election, they decided to “print” $600 billion and then buy that amount of Treasury bonds to pump some life into this economy. The Federal Reserve has come to the rescue. There isn’t likely to be another stimulus package, even though most economists think we haven’t done nearly enough. The answer? We must need more womandates. Everyone gets a mandate and then crazy stuff starts happening. Of course, two years ago, Democrats said that they had a mandate. Republicans say they have a mandate and they aren’t going to budge an inch. ![]() That doesn’t sound like a recipe for getting things done. That means that the majority of whoever is left are either on the far right or the far left. Many moderate Republicans were shoved out in the primaries, and of the 60 seats the Democrats lost, about 45 were moderates or conservatives. Can you say gridlock? Paralysis? Deadlock? Stalemate?
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