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Hey, if it weren't for Cheney, Nouri al-Maliki wouldn't have a job. Is it too late for the GOP to push for Afghan statehood?
THat was before most polititians became overt experts at spinning to the exclusion of governing. The end of compromise.
Driving home the last few days listening to the nonsense (not) happening in the Senate and the House. THe whole- Dems aren't getting anything done and the GOP not compromising but saying the Dems won't compromise. So I was thinking- keep hearing less govt, give it back to the states. Well- so far the inaction has forced this policy but people are complaining there is no funding for education (well, except Tex where they don't believe in that anyway), infrastructure, most State programs. Lots of complaining about loss of jobs occuring (many in local govt/service/education etc.
If less was better shouldn't this be working out? Would love to hear (not sarcastic) how this plan to downsize all this stuff on the Fed level is going to help the States or me as a citizen of one. Seems like the states are hung out to dry with no way to get capital except to cut more jobs or tax more. Neither is 'acceptable' to which ever party. $ don't grow on trees. Where is the money supposed to appear from on the State level? No one could reasonably believe they are going to cut enough waste to cure things. Much of that waste is putting $ into the economy and drives the economy somehow.
Driving 2 hrs back and forth to a conference for 2 days in a row gives one way too much time to think.
The question is, how are the feds going to pay for it without going further into debt.
The feds can print money, the states can't.
Sooner or later we lose the AAA rating and then what happens?
To be honest, what should happen is people start ignoring the rating agencies. (Which, after 2008, might not be a bad thing.)
Not forever. I'm sure a lot of nations are doing the thought experiment and figuring out ways to survive. For now the US is still useful to the world, so we are being permitted to continue living as hogs wallowing in our own filth. We better figure out a way to keep being useful, or the next restructuring could be our last as the world's equivalent of this guy:
None of the professional politicians want to lose their jobs because they have no skills other than screwing us over
Well, that says in one sentence what I did in paragraphs. I just get frustrated when people actually believe the drivel that the polititians spout about no pain but gain.
