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This whole debate is so comical. As I have said, sure we can tax more, we can tax the rich more, we can soak the rich! But we will never fix the problem until we cut spending. and the republicans in office aren't offering any tangible cuts that will help, either.
And when I say we need to cut spending, I mean seriously cut spending. The only thing I found laughable in the piece was the "conservatives" demonstrating how to cut. Republican or Democrat, Congress doesn't want to cut anything. None of them! That is why these so called fiscal conservatives point out "free parking" and NPR as places to cut. What really needs to be slashed is the Department of Education and the Department of Defense, but mostly entitlements. And I don't care to hear about the poor children, either, because if you want to talk poor children, just wait until you see poor children in fifty years. As for cuts, we don't need to cut billions, we need trillions! Trillions and trillions of dollars!
All of this talk of soak the rich and nailing them for $700 billion does do nothing, just as slashing the hundred and two hundred million dollar pockets of government waste will do nothing. Both tactics serve as rallying cries for each party's base, but both are smokescreens. I get sick of seeing either side arguing this, they are fooling and dividing the whole country, while fixing nothing.
If you are of the opinion that soaking the rich is the way to solve the problem, you are kidding yourself. If you are hell bent that cutting the National Endowment for the Arts will solve the problem, you are kidding yourself. Both are viable places to start, but if we implement both without making hard, politically risky but necessary cuts, we won't fix anything.
I guess we will continue to kid ourselves... Oh, and we will watch as Jon Stewart delivers the "hard" news of the day.
And when I say we need to cut spending, I mean seriously cut spending. The only thing I found laughable in the piece was the "conservatives" demonstrating how to cut. Republican or Democrat, Congress doesn't want to cut anything. None of them! That is why these so called fiscal conservatives point out "free parking" and NPR as places to cut. What really needs to be slashed is the Department of Education and the Department of Defense, but mostly entitlements. And I don't care to hear about the poor children, either, because if you want to talk poor children, just wait until you see poor children in fifty years. As for cuts, we don't need to cut billions, we need trillions! Trillions and trillions of dollars!
All of this talk of soak the rich and nailing them for $700 billion does do nothing, just as slashing the hundred and two hundred million dollar pockets of government waste will do nothing. Both tactics serve as rallying cries for each party's base, but both are smokescreens. I get sick of seeing either side arguing this, they are fooling and dividing the whole country, while fixing nothing.
If you are of the opinion that soaking the rich is the way to solve the problem, you are kidding yourself. If you are hell bent that cutting the National Endowment for the Arts will solve the problem, you are kidding yourself. Both are viable places to start, but if we implement both without making hard, politically risky but necessary cuts, we won't fix anything.
I guess we will continue to kid ourselves... Oh, and we will watch as Jon Stewart delivers the "hard" news of the day.
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