The President is absolutely correct when he said Congress needs to do the job they are supposed to do. It’s not the President’s job to make sure the House and Senate do theirs, he has his own to do.
The President is also correct when he said Congress needs to not wait for the August 2nd deadline to take care of business. He compared Congress getting their jobs done on time to his daughters getting their homework assignments done before the due date.
The response to the President’s comment was quite adamant, pointing out that they have been working hard on the problem for months.
When the President said he’s been here working, the thought came to our minds of the 76 times he was out playing golf since becoming President.
Some in Congress point out that, without something to vote on, there is nothing for Congress to do. That’s what Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) of California said, and so she plans on going home for the holidays.
Congress has been more than derelict in their duties by not passing a budget for all of 2010, that’s when the Democrats were in charge and pretty much running the show. However, keep in mind that Republican input was missing because they were locked out by the Democrat majority. And now, here we are in 2011 with no budget and no raise in the debt ceiling, as the President and his Party want.
Now the Republicans are in charge and we still have NO budget. There is NO excuse for Congress’ lack of performance in 2010 and so far in 2011 — their job is to take care of The People’s business. If they were working for an employer, they would be fired by now for their lack of performance.
An August 2nd deadline is fast approaching and, if business is not taken care of by that date, America faces a possible economy melt-down. Some in Congress say that this date in not etched in stone, that they have enough revenue coming in to cover the huge bill coming in by then so that date will likely be moved again.
Congress needs to put politics aside and do their jobs! They need to accept their personal responsibility as assigned to them by the people who elected them!
No more games! No more falsehoods in advertising, such as trying to make people think that Congress wants to put old people out in the streets without proper health care or that children’s education and health issues would be sacrificed with cuts in Congress.
They need to step up to the plate (a baseball term) and recognize that the day of reckoning has arrived. This means entitlement demands must be addressed and resolved together, with Democrats and Republicans in agreement. Differences can be resolved when there is a “will” to and when it is done for the common good.
There is more at stake here than passing a budget and raising the debt ceiling. This is about doing the right thing for the good of this nation. It’s not about political posturing and playing class warfare to get what we want. This will not solve anything and only creates bigger problems.
OBAMA IS ENGAGING IN CLASS WAR — DON’T LET HIM
GET AWAY WITH IT!!
Contrary to what the Democrats and President keep telling us, our dire situation is NOT about blaming Republicans or about class differences.
- It’s not about jet owners, the wealthy, or oil tycoons having more money than the middle class or poor.
- Income over $250,000 is not wealthy, jet owners or oil tycoons! People with this income already pay more than 45% of ALL taxes (meaning they pay almost 1/2 of their income in taxes!) That is supposed to be fair?
- THIS IS ABOUT A SPENDING PROBLEM BY THE PRESIDENT AND HIS DEMOCRAT PARTY. THEY DON’T WANT TO GIVE UP ANYTHING THEY THINK WILL INFLUENCE THEIR RE-ELECTION!
- It’s important to understand that this about the government having a balanced budget and preventing an economy melt-down by living within our means as a nation.
- This is also about “Spending Abuses” in Congress by both Parties.
- Common sense tells us that we don’t spend money we don’t have.
- Common sense also tells us that we don’t invest in things we don’t have money to pay for it.
- Expecting more revenue by forcing the rich to pay more taxes than others is not the answer.
- Common sense knows that, when we have X amount of money, we can buy X amount of goods. Period!
The impasse in Congress is about differences in priorities. Democrats say no budget without tax increases to pay for programs. Republicans say no tax increases period, cut expenditures in the budget.
The lesson to be learned from this impasse is that politician’s must cut entitlement spending without increasing taxes to do it. There may be special programs left unfunded that we want but we need to find other ways to fund them without increasing taxes for generations to come.
To say that tax cuts or tax favors for the wealthy is unfair because they can afford to pay more is not really the truth.
- It’s true that the wealthy can pay more taxes
- That the wealthy already pay most of the tax responsibility
- That the wealthy are the ones who create jobs and pay for the benefits.
- That Congress needs to accept the notion of living within our means as a nation.
Common sense tells us that we first have the money in the bank and then we spend, but some Democrats in Congress have it backwards.
- They spend whatever they want on what they want (being beholden to lobbyists) and then they force tax payers to pay the bill, rather they can or cannot afford it.
- Then they want to make the wealthy pay the larger share of the taxes because they can afford to do so.
- Do you see the dysfunction in this attitude? I hope so. Why can’t the President and more Democrats see the dysfunction?
Teacher Explains Obama’s Socialism
As the late Adrian Rogers said, “you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” This man is truly a genius! An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.
The classmates had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
I cannot make the point of the unfairness of Socialism any better than this teacher has in his classroom. It makes the point so clearly.
Commenter 1: “Spending our way out of Debt” the motto that has run countries into the ground since the concept of money began.
Commenter 2: That’s absolutely true. In real life it’s called self-reliance. When people don’t learn how to do things for themselves they are dependent on benefactors. But when a benefactor decides to change the rules or to not give them what they want then there is a problem.
You can teach a man to fish so he can feed his family for a lifetime or you can take him a fish every day. What do you think is the better idea?
Is it better to take a hungry man fishing and teach him how to continue feeding his family or should we make sure we take him a fish everyday? It is easy to see which is a better plan but the government wants to make people dependent on them.
Making people dependent on government programs is actually a mental illness, it’s called co-dependence. The government is complicit in co-dependency when they deliberately make people dependent on them. If this were a case outside of the government’s relationship to it’s people, both of the parties would need therapy.
WHO IS REALLY TO BLAME FOR THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE TODAY?
LOOK AT THIS LIST AND YOU DECIDE WHO SUPPORTED THOSE DOWNFALL OF AMERICA’S ECONOMY!!
