So, Senator Harry Reid (D) Mars, has called the proposed budget cuts from the 112th House draconian. Most of us living in a place I like to call reality call them a very small step starting out somewhere near the right direction. I have two videos I’d like to us to illustrate a small point. The first will illustrate where we are in American Politics today. I have two statements to make before the first video. First, I notice that problems appear and disappear as a matter of convenience for those on the liberal side of things. When Bush was in the White House, we had endless news stories about homelessness in America, the deficit at $100 Billion was tragic, and mass starvation was so bad in America, several states actually had to take out radio, t.v. and print ads to give away food stamps. (This last part of the first statement actually showed off the success of the Bush economy, but was used as a means to bash it. Think logically for a second, so few people were asking for food stamps that state agencies actually had a hard time giving them away.) The second point I’d like to make is the difference in how a deficit is attacked. The liberals start with the mindset of spend what we want, and worry about taxing for it on the back end. Unfortunately, raising taxes has never resulted in increased tax revenue. Not in the entire history of our nation has this approach worked. The conservatives seek to deal with deficits by not spending money they don’t have. Eliminating the deficit means two entirely different things to liberals and conservatives. Part of my frustration is that the liberals will never be totally honest about how their policies work. On to the first video, Nancy Pelosi in 2007, when that evil George Bush was President.
Thank goodness that once the Democrats controlled the purse strings, we went to work on those terrible $100 Billion deficits. Yes, I realize that statement is dripping in sarcasm, but darn it, sarcasm is so richly deserved in this instance. One brief point to make before the next video. We as humans have trouble some times with scale. We hear big numbers, and we hear other big numbers, and our brains only register, wow, big numbers. So, when President Obama announced in 2009 after people balked at the proposed $3.5 Trillion budget, he stated that he would work tirelessly to remove $100 Million from it. Anyone paying attention laughed out loud, and in the case of the Chinese Delegation, in front of the President. This next video will help you understand the concept of scale in terms of our current budgetary problems.
I do see the humor in the second video, but the problem is not so funny. If we as a nation don’t take the so called draconian measures, and consider those a baby step, we will be in deep trouble. That deep trouble will be coming very quickly too. To the good people of Nevada I have to add, What in the hell were you thinking when you elected this dolt? The great Socialist experiment of America has failed, just like it has everywhere it has been tried. It is time to stop this lunacy. Let’s all work to right this ship in November of 2012.
Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: Budget Crisis
