Thank You, Speaker Boehner
By Shaun Kenney | Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 | Policy, Politics….thank you for reconsidering.
Most significantly, the $851 billion in deficit reduction is less than the $1 trillion debt increase authorized in the plan, which is technically a violation of the GOP’s own requirements. Boehner spokesman Michael Steel says the speaker’s staff are currently “looking at option to re-write the legislation to meet our pledge,” adding: “This is what can happen when you have an actual plan and submit it for independent review – which the Democrats who run Washington have refused to do.”
Now have the courage to stick to your guns and enact the Cut, Cap, Balance plan. Do it not… and we lose out on the single best chance to change the momentum of big government in a generation.
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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12 Responses to "Thank You, Speaker Boehner"
Unlike the Boy King, at least Speaker Boehner has a plan to re-write.
Any plan with a debt limit increase is a plan alright.. for failure.
Let’s look back to September 2008
President George W. Bush, said “our entire economy is in danger,” in-turn urging Congress to approve his administration’s $700 billion bailout proposal.
“We’re in the midst of a serious financial crisis, and the federal government is responding with decisive actions,” Bush said.
Bush pointed out that the collapse of several major lenders was rooted in the subprime mortgage market that thrived over the past decade.
He said passage of the $700 billion bailout proposal was needed to restore confidence in the market.
The plan calls for the government to buy from firms up to $700 billion in troubled assets — mainly mortgage-backed securities — whose values declined as the housing market imploded.
Shaun, I two questions of you.
1. If a balance plan were in place, how could the President presented this option to Congress?
2. Since there have been no regulatory steps presented to the finance banking system, what will prevent this from reoccurring?
………… Crickets
Does ANYBODY want to deal with the root cause of our crisis? The candidates from both parties are screwing our kids! Borrowing more, taxing more.. Both parties are guilty of this sin.. and the beat goes on for more. Is anyone else on this forum sick of this?
I sure as hell am… but the problem is, the moment you find a crowd large enough and tell them the consequences, they freak out.
For instance, “live free or die” is a great slogan… until your gov’t pension stops, your social security check ends, your mortgage deductible goes away, and all the subsidies that keep food prices and inflation down all evaporate.
Then it gets worse.
Roads? Schools? Defense spending? Government contracting work and all the private firms dependent upon it? Small businesses dependent upon the traffic of public employees? Landlords for commercial space?
It all snowballs.
Frankly, most people cannot “live free” — they’d simply die.
We are the most co-dependent generation of Americans ever to stalk the earth. That gives us two choices — either train ourselves and the next generation to be self-sufficient, or we realize that we are indeed a socialist country and band together.
…of course, the former involves pain. You have to restructure things. It costs money. Our kleptocracy is loathe to do this, and ironically it will be Tea Partiers first who rail against any new initiative to prepare the future.
The latter? Is unconscionable — unless we do indeed CUT spending, CAP spending, and BALANCE the budget.
There is but one solution folks — and it’s not the best solution out there, trust me. But it’s the only one that stands even a ghost of a chance of saving the republic as we know it.
Since there is a move afoot to spend more of our kids money, I want congress to bring their kids and grandkids with them the day they vote for more debt. Let those kids press the button at their parent/grandparents command. Take photos and rememeber the day kids… the day my generation threw you to the wolves.
“There is but one solution folks…”
No there is another one – raise taxes AND cut spending to balance our books. That one makes the most sense to most Americans.
Shaun: Do you have responses to my two Questions?
Eric, your funny!
We don’t need to save the nation as we know it. We simply need to stop the house republicans from shooting us in the foot to make their point. Their decision to risk fiscal chaos to protect the wealthest corporations and individuals from paying their fair share of the gains they have made over the last decade from the Bush tax cuts is a despicable act for which they should be impeached and convicted.
Apparently, to their credit, Boehner and Cantor were able to express their view to the republican caucus that any more intrasigence would make them the villians; in other words, the combined effect of expert testimony, business outrage, governors and Mayors of both parties around the nation, the public at large as revealed by the polls, may have been sufficient to convince these buffons that they have put the nation at risk, and they will be blamed for that. Now I think it is still too close to call, but if Boehner’s proposal gets more cuts added, and gets out of the House, it may contain enough that can be comprised with the Senate that simply will not put this nation through this circus side show again in the near future. Even republicans like presidential candidate John McCain on the Senate floor today laid out the catatrophic consequences of their nihilistic behavior and implored them to negotiate and comprise. Of course to them, this war hero and standard bearer for this country is just a Rino; how sad we as a nation are being held down by this cast of no name purveyors of hate and discontent.
You’re not, Tim. You apparently have nothing to say of note. Move on, Sir, and maybe someone, somewhere will actually care what you have to say.
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