marshall wrote:
It seems the standard protocol for republicans is to go into a chicken little sky is falling hysteria on how the federal government is completely "broke" and can't afford anything regarding social welfare. I think the people who voted against this aught to have their government benefits and government paycheck slashed to help pay for the bill.
What happens when the amount of money the government owes exceeds the gross domestic product?
What happens when we owe more than we can ever earn?
It is time for our government to spend less than it takes in in taxes. One place to cut is our excessive military spending. That is something like 1/3 of the budget. Another place to cut is subsidies and bail-outs to businesses that no longer function. Let them go bankrupt and recycle their material assets to be better producers. Another place to cut is to stop spending money to keep people idle. One place to spend is to reward businesses that hire people to perform productive labor in producing services and making stuff that people can and will buy.
If the Netherlands could recover from the tulip bulb fever of the 17th century, we can recover from the madness of the last 70 or 80 years. Part of that madness is the doctrine of Perpetual War. We cannot afford war. We should only do war when the alternative is anihilation.
I'm not saying we shouldn't cut spending. I'm just saying the Repugs are bloody hypocrites. The bastards only make a huge effing fuss about spending when the spending goes to help people. They don't break into chicken little hysteria about wasteful spending that suits their interests such as Ray-guns missile defense program (an epic fail).
24 Dec 2010, 1:25 pm
