Punishing the successful, for the failure of government, doesnt seem like much of remedy to me either..... Maybe obama and pals should shut up and pass a budget for a "change"
No, If our faithful leader had done this in the first quarter of 2009, we would all be standing in breadlines. The sequester is having a noticeably chilling effect on my local economy.
You're telling us that Bush's FY 2009 budget was never passed? Not that it matters. Budgets are not binding documents.
Why are you crediting Obama? He doesn't make the budget. Congress does. And the last I checked, the Republicans control congress. Nice job Republican congress!!!
I don't see it as punishing anyone, but if we want to keep a huge military, and all the infrastructure that makes our country operate we need to pay for it somehow, and I don't see that allowing such low tax rates on that segment is fair or creating any jobs that pay worth spit. I have yet to read any solid evidence than cutting taxes on these groups improved pay for anyone. It may have created some of the lowest paying jobs gains ever though.
bill clinton cut the military in half. obama cut it even further, and now we cant even defend our ambassadors. If leftys want a tiny military, they need to stop starting all these new wars, secret wars, and bs ....
you do know what the congress is I hope..the senate and the house of representatives...and who has the majority in the senate? the leaders name is harry reid
if memory serves me right the last one was 2004 0r 2005..so long ago..but in 2009 both houses had the dem control and still no budget why?..because the dems only know how to write checks not balance the checkbook..their way of thinking is i still have checks in my checkbook so there must be money in it..
What's the basis of that? How do you know unemployment would have gone to 30% and the banking system would have collapsed if the Stimulus hadn't passed? Was the amount of money spent from the time the bill passed until June enough money to save the entire economy?
But wasnt sequestration going to cause mass starvation, ships with no fuel, close to an apocalypse? Closing WH tours, releasing criminals onto the the streets. Funny now conservative values of less spending are now hailed as a master stroke.
You're one of the loudest opponents of the sequester that the TEA party forced. Don't try to take any credit for it now.
The falling dollar and increased energy costs from Obama's strangulation policies will cause that. Of course you will attribute it to a "lack of spending".
Obama hasn't cut a damn thing... the big drop in the deficit is actually due to the >Sequester< that was supposed to wreck the economies of the world and plunge us all into another Dark Ages, according to Keynesian economic theorists who believe in three words: SPEND, SPEND, and, SPEND (in that order)....
America still ranks at the top of the military world in strength, but at what cost? http://www.globalfirepower.com/coun...rica&country2=Russia&Submit=Compare+Countries Nice little site that compares many statistics. I used their comparison section to compare number 1 USA versus Number 2 Russia. The amount spent by the US compared to Russia is astounding: USA Budgets $689,591,000,000 while Russia has a budget of 64,000,000,000... Who's getting the best bang for the buck here? The Russians spend 10% of what we do but are able to be ranked as the 2nd military power in the world? Though I would take some of this site's ranking statistics as dubious, they include such factors as total population that could theoretically fight among others, but just some of the raw comparison stats really make me wonder why we are spending so much. We simply can't afford to spend over half a trillion dollars per year on the military when we should be building infrastructure in our own country.
The policies of doing nothing or the austerity policies pushed by the Reactionary Right, were tried in Europe and earlier in Japan. They crushed those economies and those economies are still in recession, japan after almost 20 years. The economic policies of the Reactionary Right are failures and frauds based on deeply flawed ideological beliefs that have never worked in the real world.
Why did you avoid answering my question to post something even less tethered to reality? There was no austerity during Japan's lost decade.
