Now that the finishing touches are being put on US Budget Bill 2011-2012, it's time to start putting things into perspective. Clearly, a majority of people in the nation not only want budget deficit reductions, they are willing to pay a very high price.
With right wing, Tea Party-endorsed candidates believing they were sent to Washington for the sole purposes of reducing the deficit and ending legalized abortion, why don't these people and the states that elected them lead the way. Certainly one way to reduce the deficit would be to take the federal budget ascribed to any program in any state that elected a Tea Party-endorsed candidate and simply apply that money to the deficit. There, problem solved in no time, and the people who directly or indirectly support this method of budget reduction can have no cake and not be able to eat it either. Queen among them, possible GOP Presidential candidate, Michelle Bachman (R-MN) who was reported on FOXNews as having said in disgust about the new budget, "...members of Congress have "been asked to settle for $39 billion in cuts, even as we continue to fund Planned Parenthood and the implementation of ObamaCare." (
source) Oh, my wacky Rep. Bachman yet again proving she puts the lives of unborn children and young women high on her list.
What exactly is it that causes a US Budget deficit? It's simple really, spending more than you take in. You know there's a whole different way to solve a deficit than cutting, though cutting may work insofar as you don't chop down or entangle the entire tree. Another way is to grow the economy and, therefore, grow the taxes collected. Tea Partiers not unlike the generally uncreative people elected into Congress have no solutions for how to grow the economy save one. They preach cutting taxes. If you gut taxes you'll have more money to get returned to the government as taxes, so their logic goes. Huh? If the treasury dept. was set to collect $1000 from you in income tax, and instead it's cut to $500, how does it ever see that $500 again? You go buy a color tv and pay state and local sales tax. The company that makes it sends in a bit more income tax but certainly way less than the $500. It's a plan that just does't make sense if you are trying to reduce your deficit. No, instead, the only thing the Tea Partyiers and their cronies can think of is abolishing support for Planned Parenthood. On that note, got to wonder if they've run the numbers yet as to which is more expensive: funding Planned Parenthood or paying the health care costs of young women maimed in back alleys, paying for the cost of upbringing thousands more kids in foster care and orphanages, and the legal fees associated with all the attempts to eventually overturn Roe v. Wade?
Where's the inspiration to captivate a nation and galvanize us as JFK did around a common cause of putting a man on the moon.
Finally, there seems to be no one talking about the price of gas anymore. It's off the radar despite sliding upward to $4/gallon every time you turn around. How about the fact that our economy is currently oil-dependent, and the higher it goes, the worse it is for just about every industry. How about regulating the price and ending speculating on it.