2triky wrote:It was a completely manufactured crisis that need not have even happened let alone averted.
Exactly. The Bammer and his people were attempting to set up issues that would feature in next year's election. The Repubs, especially Tea Party'ers, did not want to play and so it became another disaster created by Bush by which the nation was going to sink into the sea. Fighting to the wire over taxing the wealthy, taking the paycheck from grandma and getting another stimulus.
The one thing that was interesting, is that the Dems and even Obama, who heretofore have always insisted that Social Security would never be an issue as it has its own account and is separate from government spending and other revenue. It is solely based on each person and their employers payments to that paticular account.
If this is true, why during the current fiasco, did they consistently claim that all plans by the Repubs would cut these particular entitlements? Even the Bamster claimed that if the Government shut down, or the debt ceiling was not raised, it was not certain that social security checks would go out this month, thus strangling grandma. Strange words for a fund that he and his people were alleging to be be completely separate from other government monies. Were they finally admitting after all this time, that the government has been dipping into social security funds? Incidentally, Social security checks arrived in Japan over the weekend before the deal was cut.....
However, this is all very strange coming from a party that has not submitted a budget in almost three years in office and does not appear to be on the verge of doing that before the next national election.
Everytime the Repubs have submitted anything, it's been labeled a political ploy, or like with Ryan's budget plan, an attempt to strangle grandma again. Be it right, or wrong, it would seem the Dems should submit something, other than basking in the so-called glory of a half-assed health bill that may never come to light.
It is Obama this and Obama that. Well, to remind those that forget, the Pesident cannot write or pass legislation. He also cannot spend any money of the US treasury. The laws are written and passed by the Houses of Congress, as well as the approval for budgets. When the Bamster came in so did the Dems and they controlled both houses of Congress, but it remains that nothing was done because it was the Republicans fault. Now that the 'pubs control the House, it is again their fault that nothing can be done. If the Dems couldn't do it when they controlled everything, and now, while they control two of the three branches of government, why should we expect them do anything now, or in the future? Oh, I forgot, it was Bush's fault. The next election will be four years and yet they claim that only more taxes and massive spending can clean up the mess?
Ya'll can keep harping, but it should be becoming more and more clearer. Great ideologies sound great, but the more you see some of them in practice, the more you gotta wonder.....
