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Washington: Blame No One. Do Something! By Ron Hart
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
As they always do, our representatives in Congress raised the debt ceiling and said they were going to make cuts later. Then they fled Washington to go on a long vacation. Why not address this now? Why the suspense? Congress has not left so many things dangling in front of so many Americans since Anthony Weiner left.
They called what they did a "two-step deal." It looks like both were side steps.
Jason Jones compared the "debt ceiling deal" and Congress' reaction to a bunch of monkeys high-fiving each other in celebration, having forgotten that just recently they were throwing their feces on each other.
Remember, Obama kept using the word "bankrupt" and threatened not to pay Social Security checks. The country was not nearly bankrupt; he just used the word as a scare tactic to get his way. Obama blames everything on someone else: the Tea Party for forcing budget cuts or Japan for having an earthquake. I guess he is blaming G0d, too.
Blame and threats are not a strategy.
The Democrats called those wanting to cut the spending "terrorists" who were holding the country hostage. Obama might want to be careful; being unable to negotiate the release of hostages invites even more comparisons to Jimmy Carter.
It is getting more dangerous in the Obama administration. Last week a man hopped over the White House fence and made a run for it. Then the Secret Service caught him and told Mr. Geithner he had to finish his term as Treasury Secretary. It turns out it is much easier being the problem than the solution.
After months of indicating that he might leave his post as Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner said he would stay. In the end, he decided to keep his safe government job since he determined there is no way of finding a good job in this economy.
Interestingly, last week it was also reported that Washington, D.C. has the highest use of cocaine, pot and alcohol That explains a lot. The S&P downgrade was not a decision; it was more like an intervention.
It is like Obama and the Democrats were called into a room to find S&P, Moody's, the U.S. dollar and the stock market, who told them, "We love you, but you have a spending addiction." I don't care if they have a drug problem; it is their spending that is hurting others.
If Obama wants to borrow again soon he is going to have to get his financier buddy, George Soros, to co-sign for him.
Let's be as clear as we can. Federal spending has gone to $3.8 trillion per year and tax revenue remains at $2.1 per year. We run annual losses of $1.7 trillion -- and climbing -- and Geithner and Obama are blaming S&P and the Tea Party for the downgrade? Wow.
The $14 trillion dollar debt is not so much the problem; we are projected to have a $27 trillion debt in ten years. For Obama and Geithner to blame S&P for it is like being late for two years on payments for their big screen TV and then shooting the repo man who comes to get it.
Their new stall is the "Super Committee" to be appointed to cut the budget down the road. They are just so delusional that they will call on Superman, Captain America, Green Hornet, Iron Man, Superwoman, Spiderman and Batman to cut the budget. I presume Barney Frank will be Batman; he spends his time with Robin, who spends a lot of time on the bat pole. Only those egomaniacs in Washington could call themselves "super" anything. I still snicker when they are called "The Honorable…."
Obama used his media arms, NBC, CBS and ABC, to make political points in prime time and told people to call their representatives. The "post partisan president" was surprised that few called to support his spending on entitlements and that the vast majority favored spending cuts. Voters do not wait on hold for an hour to talk to a Congressman's intern in order to leave the message "Just compromise."
The dysfunction of Washington is such a disaster that al-Qaeda is claiming responsibility for it. The good news is Obama will soon be making taxpayer- funded visits to swing states in the Midwest, and he will be trying to save jobs --- mainly his.
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© 2010 Ron Hart
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