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Originally Posted by Riot
Obama suggests something that is a conservative wet dream (making government smaller and less expensive) and conservative heads explode in anger and ad hominem attacks!  |
When Obama held his press conference Friday, where he both admitted and confessed to Government being too big and overly redundant, the final element was put in place, creating The Perfect Storm.
For decades the Republican Party has stated government was too big but has failed miserably doing anything about it. The American Libertarian Party knew it since the day they were founded. So if only we can defeat the American Communist Party we have all parties on board a common cause, something that hasn’t occurred since perhaps we landed on the moon.
However like going to the moon, the achievement isn’t gained with simply an idea and or plan but rather setting the idea as a goal, then fulfilling the goal and completing the plan.
A Super Committee, of purportedly our finest politicians, from both parties, (no Libertarians or members of any other party) was assembled this past summer/fall to propose cuts in the mega-trillion dollar Obama budget. After meeting for months, conducting as they called it, exhaustive talks, they as a group, were unable to cut a single dollar. As I’ve expounded here before, this result was inevitable as each and every politician, that made up that Super Committee, was elected to office based not on what he/she could cut but to the contrary what he/she could provide.
The brightest of the bight politicians, fighting over money for their States and causes is akin to a group of starving Ethiopians fighting over food. There is no order. No sharing and most important no saving or even notion of saving. The Ethiopians are fighting because of starvation. Our politicians are fighting because of greed.
Let’s be honest. The Press Conference farce called Friday was nothing but a taxpayer paid, political commercial full of lies. Unfortunately for the taxpayer, the President’s counterpart, the Republicans will not call his bluff by drawing up bills, detailing consolidations because it’s not in their interest to cut anything either.
Until the taxpayer figures out they’re in a three-handed poker game they weren’t invited to but are anteing in every hand, they’re screwed. If Mr. Taxpayer were able to be at the table, he’d see the Democrat and Republican winking at each other and only taking a hand out of turn when the other is in the bathroom or not looking.
Consolidation, especially in the case of the U.S. Government, would be a piece of cake if only the Government sought out private professionals to handle the job. Leaving it to Government and the President to solve is the equivalent of asking Harry Reid and the Senate to build a rocket, John Bohner & Co. to build a ground support system, and have the President pilot his family to the moon on his next vacation.