Feb 26 2009
Leading Figures in GOP Are Not Digging Obama’s Budget Proposal
Reuters reports leading Republicans in Congress are not too happy with the $3.55 trillion federal budget being proposed by President Barack Obama.
You know what this means. Fight! Fight! Fight!
Although the president’s party controls both the Senate and the House of Representatives, any budget he wants passed is going to require the help of fiscally conservative Democrats and the two or three moderate Republicans left in Congress.
“I have serious concerns with this budget, which demands hardworking American families and job creators turn over more of their hard-earned money to the government to pay for unprecedented spending increases,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement.
“The American people deserve a budget that puts fiscal discipline and jobs first. The budget offered by the Obama Administration fails on both counts,” said Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who serves as chair of the House Republican Caucus.
Pence also said in a statement that “The American people know we cannot tax, spend and borrow our way back to a healthy economy” and that the president has presented a “prescription for economic decline.”
Well, it is great to see the Republicans digging fiscal discipline again! This certainly wasn’t the tune many of them were singing when George W. Bush was in office. And speaking of economic decline, didn’t our country lose a boatload of jobs during Dubya’s reign of error? Why yes, I believe it did!
As for Obama and the Democrats, their spending orgy is going to turn America the Beautiful into America the Broke – that is if we’re not already there. As of right now, the national debt is $10.802 trillion. Does anyone know when all that money has to be paid back? I hope you younger readers like the idea of paying sky-high taxes, because I do not see any other way of getting ourselves out of this mess. But then I am a dummy when it comes to economic and fiscal matters.
I have little faith in the republican’s newly found fiscal discipline.
If they want to talk about true solutions to the debt we face, then maybe they’d start listening to Ron Paul on our currency.
In fact, this would be a brilliant move for the G.O.P. - pushing to end the debt-based monetary structure we operate under right now. I expect a tidal wave of american support would come their way.
But the republican party doesn’t actually care about debt, this is just the latest place they feel they can make a stand.
They aren’t fooling me, and they shouldn’t be fooling you either.
“They aren’t fooling me, and they shouldn’t be fooling you either.”
Don’t worry, they’re not. It’s the same thing with military interventionism. During the ’90’s, many leading conservative republicans were blasting Clinton’s actions in the Balkans and saying we should stay out of conflicts that aren’t in our vital interest, then as soon as Bush got into office, they rubber-stamped his invasion of a country that never attacked the US.
It’s all about posturing. And it’s a shame, because I’m sure many of these people are smart enough to come up with some pretty damn good ways to fix the problems our nation faces, if only they’d take the time to think for themselves instead of following what “the party leaders” tell them to do.
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