Punting against America.
Just in case you missed it, America is a nation that was designed by geniuses and is now run by idiots. We can also add that our nation is run by gutless, self-centered cowards too.
What is going on that requires stating the obvious?
The gutless cowards we call the Senate and Congress are now working a plan to punt the so-called sequestration for another year.
First, the sequestration was a horrible idea. John Boehner, instead of standing and fighting, he raised his freshly laundered white flag of surrender and gave us sequestration.
Sequestration is the process of automatic budget cuts if the Congress could not agree on a specified amount of budget cuts.
Barack Obama and the Party of Treason loved sequestration because half the cuts if sequestration were invoked would come from the Department of Defense and one of Obama’s long standing goals has to destroy America as a military superpower.
The budget is out of control. While members of Congress are now seriously looking at ways to avoid the catastrophic defense budget cuts, they are not serious about cutting spending.
We have hundreds of billions of dollars in waste in the Federal Budget. When is the government going to cut the waste? We have hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that exists only to help get politicians reelected. When is that going to be cut?
Oh wait, according to the politicians in Washington think that is more important than minor details such as defending the nation.
Now the pressure is building in congress, including among Republicans for new “revenues” for the government.
So here is the thirty-five cent question. Are the politicians in Washington going to listen before or after we have an economic collapse? My money is on after the collapse because so many of these politicians do not even have a room temperature IQ. Most of them don’t have an IQ that could thaw ice.
John McCain and Lindsay Graham are leading the charge on punting sequestration.
One thing is certain. You know when Graham and McCain get together on something, anything, you can oppose it just on general principles and probably be right.
Graham and McCain are believers in the P.T. Barnum School of politics, believing there is a sucker born every minute and they are all voters. The so-called “offsets” or cuts are going to be non-existent. They are going to be numbers made up by the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO is the Indianapolis Colts of politics, except the Colts have a better chance of winning than the CBO has of getting anything right.
The numbers will exist on paper. It will be the equivalent of me taking my bank statement and adding a couple of zeros to my account balance. It might make me think I am rich, but the reality will be I am just as broke as I was before I took my pen to the bank statement.
The real danger is the pressure in Republican circles to raise taxes.
The Taxpayer Protection Pledge of Americans for Tax Reform is the standard by which Republican anti-tax beliefs are measured. Most Republicans have signed the pledge.
Yet within Congress, a number of Republicans have turned their backs on the pledge not to raise taxes. Even more Republicans are threatening to go squishy and raise taxes.
The problem is not revenue. It is spending.
In a hearing in 2011, the GAO could not even identify the number of welfare programs the government had, how much money was being spent or even whether the programs were effective.
Instead of gutting defense spending, which is something the Constitution mandates, why don’t we cut wasteful government spending?
With hundreds of billions of dollars of identified government waste, why aren’t McCain and Graham out making those cuts? The answer is, they are clueless Washington politicians.
Killing, not punting sequestration is a good idea. Even Leon Panetta, the Secretary of Defense says the cuts in defense spending would be devastating.
We need real budget cuts. We need to eliminate the programs that are wasteful or that have just completely failed.
Unfortunately with McCain and Graham leading the charge what we are going to end up with are phantom budget cuts along with real tax and fee increases.
In short, America is sinking faster than an Italian cruise ship and Graham and McCain simply want to order more lasagna.
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