That the issue in Washington regarding the budget and our current rate of increasing the debts is not going to be resolved:

1. The folks doing the negotiating are apparently insane on one side and stupid on the other. Neither side appears to be rational, nor do they accept that the issue is one of spending too much money. They apparently don’t realize the disaster that they are driving us towards…Or perhaps they don’t care. Either way, we as a country crash and burn.

2. This will not end well. The issue seems to be not if the free money machine explodes, but rather when. These folks seem to believe that they can kick the can down the road, and keep their jobs in the meantime. The only issue is that they will be wealthy enough to weather the shitsorm that ensues, but the rest of us will not. And they really don’t care.

3. It would appear that neither side really cares for much more than theatrics. Political theater.

4. The best thing that could happen to the country would be for a Tom Clancy like disaster to happen during a joint session of congress presided over by Mr. Obama and attended by Joe Biden. With the resulting wholesale change of leadership.

Got my first political call of the election season…..Disguised as a “survey”, When the push to tell me all about the incumbent’s virtues fell on deaf ears, the tried to go with “perhaps he’ll be able to convince you about his conservatism in the next few moths leading up to the election” gambit……Whereupon I pointed out that his voting record for the previous years was obviously NOT conservative….

I then suggested we get back to the next of the 20 questions….She asked the big one…”For whom would I vote in the republican primary”? My reply: “Anyone but your guy…Quite possibly, I’d vote for the South End of a northbound horse rather than vote for your guy…not that there is much difference”…

Seems that when push came to shove, there were only three questions in the survey, not 20. If I wouldn’t play the game by their rules, and let them preach the virtues of their candidate, they didn’t really want to hear my opinion on the rest….Maybe it’ll keep ’em from calling me back?

And why did we let the politicians exempt themselves from honoring the Do Not Call list? 

No, seriously.

Shut it down.

Why wait? I mean, if we are gonna have to save money, then lets start NOW. If yer gonna stop sending out old people’s Social Security checks, then start right now. Let the screaming begin.

And BTW, I thought that the Social Security money was all tied up in the “lockbox”…where it would be safe from plundering by evil Democrats and such…Or is that “lockbox” really just full of Hot Air? Empty promises? Unredeemable IOU’s? If that money is gone,  then you’ve lied to us all those years…..and I’m gonna quit sending you money from my checks from this point forward, ’cause you’ve reneged on you contract. So I think I’ll take my money and put it in another retirement fund. ’cause you’ll have proven that my money is not safe, and is not covered by the “full faith and credit of the United States”….Which is worth exactly NOTHING. forget about any of us 40 somethings, or 30 somethings, or even 20 somethings ever trusting you with all that money from our paychecks ever again.

Or were you folks lying when you said you’d have to cut off the check that is the only thing that keeps grandma and Old Mrs. Oleary from being tossed in the street and forced to eat dog food to survive or whatever.

As far as the rest of the government, shut it down. We’ll soon find out what portions are really needed to keep the country operating, and then we’ll know which parts we don’t need….so we can cut the rest down to size and get rid of all the waste that apparently takes place and save all that money.

Look: I fully expect the conservatives republicans Stupid Party to cave in at the last minute. But I hope that they won’t.

Lets find out which parts of our government are really needed….then trash the rest.

I think I see the issue in the debt ceiling talks:

on the one hand, we have the socialists. Their issue is that we aren’t spending enough, and to cut any programs or agencies would be bad because many people are dependent on the money put into the economy by the government. The issue is that the government must give money to the “people”, be they “productive” or not. Those who are “disadvantaged” still need their handouts. Most of the other government employees need to have a government job because otherwise their standard of living would decrease. Most (not all) government workers couldn’t hack it in a real, private sector, productive, results oriented type of work environment. In other words, depend on the government….

And, BTW, your hard earned dollars really belong to the government and “professional politicians”. We don’t have a spending issue, we have a lack of proper tax levels.

On the other hand, we have the conservatives: We are spending too much. We don’t really need this many government programs, most of which are of dubious value anyway. They do keep people employed, but at a great cost per worker. We need to let people in the private sector keep more of their money. Those who live off of the largesse of the productive portion of our citizens should be happy with what they get, and if they don’t like it, should get their own source of income…
And, BTW, your hard earned dollars are yours, and you shouldn’t have to give so many to the government to spend wastefully The issue isn’t a lack of taxes, but rather a lack of restraint when spending other peoples money.They only support raising the debt limit when it is for military or infrastructure spending under a Republican president..

Have I got it right?

North said…

“But 2012 IS coming up.”

Everyone keeps saying Obama is Kenyan. I say he is Mayan and his calendar is running out.

Got it back a few weeks ago, approximately in the time frame which was promised.

Paperwork says that it got a new extractor and assorted other parts. Claims that they shot 50 rounds with no issues.

Might even be true.

The pistol was DIRTY when I got it. Very. I think they put a new barrel on it too.

Anyway, time has been short here recently, and I have only put about 37 rounds through it. So far, no issues. The extractor appears to be fine.

We shall see.

And, of course, Mr. Obama:

Folks: we really don’t care how you do it. Cut the cost of government.

I understand that making drastic changes will be a Bad Thing if done too quickly…Bad for the economy, and bad for the country…..But you gotta start somewhere, so make some cuts and then make a few more every year until things get better…..

Start by cutting all of the social programs Midnight Basketball and Cowboy Poetry are nice things, if you can afford them….But we can’t.  Not cuts that take place in 2014, (or 2075!) Do IT Now. Immediate cuts. Cut “entitlements”. Drastically. Cut each department paid by federal money by 10%. It is a start. Show you are serious. No paper cuts. Immediate cuts

Now for the hard part….In the near future (like starting 2012) cut unneeded departments say, starting 2012 and for the next five years, cut the budgets of the Department of ED, the Department of Energy, BATF(E), USDA, HHS and HUD by 10% per year for the next 5 years. Then find out where you can combine or eliminate these departments. While they may actually do good things, most of their mission is merely providing jobs for people. We actually get little or no value for the dollars we spend on these departments.Cut such things as FDA and EPA to their basic needs to fulfill their original charter, and get them back to what their original mission statement was….and no more. Think seriously about shutting down NASA and NOAA. Same with the Army Corps of Engineers projects. Few of those work out well anyway, do they? If floods happen, then people will move.  End agricultural subsidies and such. Eliminate things like Ethanol subsidies and “green energy” grants and such. If a project is valid and viable, it’ll happen without subsidies. AND WE CAN’T AFFORD this sort of bullshit.

Immediately suspend and eliminate all foreign aid. ALL. Every last cent. Stop it immediately. Cut back on the military personnel at all those bases. Why are we still in Korea? Germany? Japan? Spain? ….Cut the staffing at those bases by a significant amount and put many of those bases into caretaker/mothball status. If NATO nations want our defense, then they can pay for it. They have lived under the umbrella of security provided by the US (under the guise of NATO) for nearly 50 years, and spent their money building a more socialized state (which is currently collapsing) instead of paying for their own defense. Time to pay the piper…

Reign in spending. Set limits for spending. Make them law. Law that cannot be easily changed.

If all of that takes place, then begin to talk about tax increases. But only if EVERY citizen begins to pay taxes.

Until you do these things, it is all just words.

And We Citizens are getting tired of the bullshit. And the lies.

I cannot find anything to refute THIS.

It’s like the real life incarnation of all those emails that get forwarded over and over and over and over…

Scary

That Obama just walked out of the budget talks to show that HE can do it too…

and, of course, he OBVIOUSLY doesn’t play poker.

I’m losing ever increasing respect for him daily.

He’s right. (follow the link)

But the thing is, the GOP lacks testicles. And intestinal fortitude.

And I expect them to cave (again). 

But 2012 IS coming up. We’ll remember.

Maybe we can do something about it then.