However, nothing sensible or mature is on the horizon. Republicans have vowed to extract more heedless spending cuts in exchange for their votes to raise the debt limit. To that end, they seem likely to demand changes to the budget process, like a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, or spending caps.
A balanced budget amendment? Spending caps? Quelle horreur!
Worse, the amendment would hold annual spending to 18 percent of the previous year’s gross domestic product, a formula that works out to about 16.7 percent in the proposal’s early years, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. That is a level last seen in 1956 — a time before Medicare, before the interstate highways, when many baby boomers were not yet born, never mind aging into retirement.
Well, that's just beyond the pale! 18% of the previous year's gross domestic product? Think of the old people! The poor, needy interstates! The bridges to nowhere! The...the....baby seals! We certainly can't boot a few tens of millions of people off the welfare/medicaid rolls. Many of them may drive nicer cars and have pricier toys than the rest of us, but that's no reason to snatch back their right to a handout.
Sharply lower spending would, in turn, allow for big tax cuts. Those tax cuts would be virtually irreversible, since the amendment calls for a two-thirds vote of both houses to raise taxes.
Er, isn't that the idea? Oh wait, now I get it! How can the progressives buy votes from the recipients of the Obama-bucks if the "free" money isn't extorted from the working, middle, and upper classes? It's not fair! Waaahhh!
The White House and Congressional Democrats must not allow themselves to be taken hostage again.
Oh brother. Hahahaha! Taken hostage, huh? The Conservatives don't want to take you idiots hostage; we want to send you home, and force you to live in the sewer you've created with your bullcrap.
The Old Gray Lady is gasping her last breath. Soon she'll be tits-up, and her editorial staff will be standing on an unemployment line with no marketable skills to offer. Good.
Bravo, lady red!!
ReplyDeleteI new the NYT was a lefty propaganda rag but their blatant partisanship in this article surprised me.
I loved your comments. Count me in, sisteh.
Maybe we should suggest taxing the NYT at 90% so the government can keep spending.
ReplyDeleteI think, that when the Gray-Faced Old Hag was busy shilling for world socialism, was the time Stalin coined the term 'useful idiots'.
ReplyDeleteNow that they are only in the tank for socialism in the US, it is fitting we shorten their title.
So, let's drop the 'useful' part, OK?