Where’s the President’s Plan?
By Michael Fletcher | Saturday, July 30th, 2011 | PoliticsA simple search at whitehouse.gov turned up this:
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Michael Fletcher works as a freelance writer and consultant in Richmond, Virginia. He blogs regularly at http://www.thewritesideofmybrain.com, http://www.richmondvabusiness.com and http://365thingsibelieve.wordpress.com
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Poor Barry, I have been looking at polls. His idea of turning the debt level debate into his reelection campaign does not seem to working well for anyone. Simpson nailed it. The mood seems to be disgust for all politicians.
If it weren’t our country it would be laughable.
Michael, This may be one of the most devastating columns of the year. One thing is for sure: voters cannot plead ignorance any longer.
Micheal: What’s your point?
Somehow your idea of resolving a situation is each submit a piece of paper and then pick one. Failure to realize that ultimatums are not successful and that a combined negotiation, that will succeed in being passed. As far as Boehner’s plan, it’s final version was to submit an unworkable plan that would barely make it out of the House but knowingly fail in the Senate. The statements of those that signed on, such as “It’s far from perfect”, “I had to hold my nose” and so forth, attest to the plan’s value. My point, submission of a fallacious plan, is no plan at all. So my question to you, where is the House plan that will work?
Clearly the republicans have one theme; cut expenses, cut taxes. BK has made a living and a career on these four words, and one has to admit they have a certain ring. However, this President was presented with as dark a scenario as any. Trillions of dollars of debt, two unpopular wars being paid for on a credit card, increases in entitlements that were not paid for, and a financial system rocked by failures of regulation which Wally Erb has commented on so well herein. In this situation, cutting expenditures would have led to disastrous consequences, not recovery. But cuts in state and local governments, and the time required for banks to fully recover, has let to a tepid recovery. We still need to focus on investments in education, infrastructure, and jobs, as the same time we commit to reductions in expenditure, modifications in entitlements, and a more robust recovery and growth in GDP.
The leftists view language as a weapon not as a form of communication. Never address the question. Just attack attack attack. Wally’s post is filled with the usual diversions and leftist talking points (MB’s post I pass by in silence for fear of 20 more posts in response.) Dems negotiate and compromise in good faith all the time, they are transparent honest and wonderful. Conservatives are extremists who want to diminish brontosaurus government How dare they. For reasons unstated, all their plans are DOA, unworkable, they are hostage takers terrorists etc etc On the other hand a ten second soundbite is a fully articulated Dem plan. The leftists just need to be politically defeated in the same way the McCarthyites were defeated. Hopefully they will be replaced by the oldtime liberals who at least had a sense of humor. No need for more words until then.
Mike, as far as “investments” are concerned, you as a business guy should realize that for business to invest, it has to have a return on investment (ROI). “Investment” in your/Obama/Democrat speak is open ended spending with no business-like ROI, metrics or benefits except making people dependent, political patronage and bribing voters. The horrible economic and jobs numbers speak for themselves and are being put out by the same people who are trying to do more of the same. Wally’s conspiracy theories are great reading and belong on the magazine racks in supermarket checkout lines next to the STAR and other rags where the important news is the latest diet fad, alien abductions and anorexic actresses.
Now we are treated to the spectacle of Senate republicans refusing to allow a vote on the Senate bill becasue they have decided to filibuster. Of course, they know it would pass in its proposed form, yet they know they can hold it up from passage. Once again, there is no doubt who is responsible for putting our nation at risk. The damage has already starter, and of course, the fiscal calamity that will occur on Tuesday will be far reaching and will damage this nation’s credibility. The republicans have already won this situation, using first their majority in the House, and then the filibuster in the Senate, to ensure default, which is simply unprecedented since these are past obligations already approved by the House and Senate. Americans know who has created this self imposed crisis for America, and it is the republican party. Despicable.
The President’s plan is to run down the clock, declare a crisis by Executive Order and then try to do what he wanted to do in the first place. For some reason Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn keeps coming to mind.
Perhaps, but I prefer the following. If I were the President, I would go on national TV, indicate he speaks for the citizens of the U.S., and demand that each Chamber take an up or down vote on raising the debt ceiling, no conditions attached. Let’s see who will cause default, recession, degradation of our credit rating, reduction of our personal assets, recesssion, businss failures, local and state government default, perhaps depression, and the spectacle of the greatest nation in the world groveling because it is a dead beat debtor. But that’s just me.
Valentinus makes me chuckle. He has the ability to label statements left, right, liberal, moderate, and conservative only base upon his opinion. He considers himself right-conservative, so any opinion not congruent with his must be left-liberal.
You can throw any labels on my post you like, but they are devoid of any political rhetoric and ideology. My comments are fiduciary, reality, and capitalistic.
Uh, Mike we don’t yet have a Dictator in Chief who can demand that Congress do anything as we are supposed to have three equal branches of Government. By the way, you should watch when you copy your Armageddon posts… you had “recession” in there twice in the first Armageddon post, and identically again in your last Armageddon post. Does that mean you are prophesying a 5th “Horseman” known as a “double” recession in the coming fiscal Apocalypse in addition to the other 4 we already know about? I’m going to head to my fallout shelter and watch the Apocalypse online until the New World Order emerges.
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