Sunday, June 27, 2010
Cutting deficits---again
There's a story out this evening on President Obama welcoming the idea of nations cutting deficits.
Naturally, this will have to include us, the US, cutting ours.
The American people are for it. Republicans take this position, as do Libertarians, of course and even most Democrats, publicly and, for some of them, privately, too.
But here's the thing--We, the Democrats, did this once, during President Clinton's 2 terms. We cut the deficit and deficits, thank you very much. We had pay/go provisions, everything. The Republicans did away with them during dumb-dumb W's 2 presidential terms.
So you know what? Here we go again. For once, the Republicans will have to be FOR something--this cutting of spending and deficits--and not just the "party of no" as they have been for the last 2 years, since this President attained the White House.
Won't and wouldn't that be refreshing?
Link to story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100627/ap_on_bi_ge/obama_8
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Depends on how we cut the deficit. If the Democrats want to do it without large spending cuts, I hope the Republicans do oppose them.
Mark my word, they'll include spending cuts. Likely not enough--right?--but they'll have cuts. We'll have to force them to cut more. Hopefully it will be from defense. (I know you won't agree on that).
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Hopefully it will be from defense. (I know you won't agree on that)
Wrong as usual...:)
As long as you cut the mission as you cut funding, I strongly support cutting defense spending--at least down to the levels where it is actually defensive. We can't afford to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan as long as we have, let alone indefinitely.
What I foresee is now that the democrats have voted for many of their pet projects, they will refuse to cut them back significantly, and blame the republicans for being obstructionist when the republicans refuse to agree to raise taxes to pay for them. Any cuts agreed to by
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