The problem with the "difficult" decisions and the "painful" cuts is that they are neither to those who are making them. The Republicans both the fat cats and the tea partiers have insulated themselves and their big business constituency, wearing the guise of small business sympathizers and hiding behind a mystical wall of trickle down economics that has proven a failure even as we speak.
The Wall-street mentality shook our financial system to its core. The conservative right gave away the keys to the store, then left the door open. The very ideals that brought us to the brink of financial ruin are still enjoying lucrative tax breaks and exorbitant salaries while heaping more and more regulation on the common man trying to get back on his feet.
All I ask is that people look for a little honesty in the statement when a politician tells you how painful it is to cut your child's education benefits. Too see the words for what they really mean when they say choices and mean charges, because every choice you get is going to cost you.
This isn't about protecting the economy. If it was they would have nailed it down months ago. This is about conserving a system of financial repression that has gone on for more then a 100 years. This about hoarding wealth and amassing fortunes by turning the nations back to those in need.
If it were truly about saving the bacon of the country that made possible the wealth of a generation, it would simply be up to those that profited to pay the bill. Not to somehow slip off and skate the check, leaving it for the poor who only got to taste the crumbs of the meal.
The conservatives have engineered a situation in which it will seem as though these drastic cuts are necessary and appear to be "for the greater good" and then they will make them with a single tear in their eye. Finally freeing themselves from their legal if not moral obligation to the voiceless minorities. The Aged, the Poor and those who slip through the cracks of our modern society.
The GOP will call for temporary freezes that amount to cuts and end up being permanent. They will divide the nation into those who have and those who need and if successful will allow the former to eat the latter.
The powerful call for smaller government because it means they will be regulated less. They call for an end to collective bargaining because it means they can get away with misusing the work force. These are simple motivations yet by and large the public fails to see past the rhetoric.
We do not need smaller government. Historically no country has ever thrived while also reducing the size of its government. More efficient yes, but there are needs that must be filled and the states are proving today that they can not plan for their own futures much less be expected to provide for others. Yet here we are with a room full of people we elected to come in and stall the process, I wonder how many jobs the republican congress can say they have created since gaining the majority?