Phone Home

Will somebody in the federal government please phone home? "Home" would be the American people, who would like to hear somebody with some common sense address the very real crises facing this nation with real solutions.

Congressman Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, seems to be among the very few dialing us these days.

Our annual deficit is hurtling toward $1.65 trillion. The deficit spiked 16% in the first half of this fiscal year: not a good sign for the rest of it. Our national debt careens toward $14.3 trillion. The debt ceiling is about to be smashed. First time jobless claims ROSE last week significantly. The jobs situation is clearly not improving in any meaningful way. The percent of Americans working is at its lowest since 1983. The housing market continues to slide. Inflation is now present in everything from food to oil to clothing. Americans are paying more not for luxury items but for basic necessities like milk, gasoline, and T-shirts. Some suggest that real inflation is running at about 10%. Devastating.

And yet, the President gave a shallow, hyper-political, intellectually dishonest speech yesterday about the budget and spending in which he appeared as "The Great and Powerful Oz" who, behind the curtain, really isn't. He gave a load of bunkum. He professed to be a deficit-cutter, when he has given us years of record deficits, increased spending to unprecedented levels, and blew up the debt to unimaginable levels. He added $4 trillion to it in just 2 years. He also called for massive tax increases, which is the worst idea at any time but particularly during a down economy. His speech did nothing to seriously address our fiscal crisis. It did, however, serve as a solid campaign speech.

Meanwhile, some Republican leaders think the deal they struck last week is just swell, and the best they could hope for, given their control solely over the House. They all claim that the deal "cuts" $38 billion. It does no such thing, as I've pointed out previously. Now the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) claims that the deal only shaves about $350 MILLION from spending. If this weren't so dangerous for the nation, it would be laugh out loud funny. A total joke.

Democrats in Congress are running around with their hair on fire, shreiking that any Republican who wants to cut spending wants to throw Grandma in a snowbank, and the Far-Left segment of their caucus put out their own budget plan yesterday that calls for trillions MORE in spending and tax hikes.

The new tea party members of Congress are the only ones who truly get it. They get how dire the fiscal crisis is. They get the need for deep, profound cuts in spending. They get the need for economic growth policies, like tax CUTS. They get that the Left is trying to smear them with old-school attacks about being "mean" and "heartless." They don't care about the attacks. They get that those cuts must be made, or they will be made for us, by foreign creditors, high interest rates, etc.

The tea party has the cojones to get this job done. No one else does, apparently. They're all papering over the reality and calling it "a good deal."

The tea party is phoning home. Will anybody else pick up the phone and dial us?

Comments

[Ummahgummah]

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As if the intelligent non-libs among us needed to be reminded why they should avoid places like Dubai:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376649/British-tourist-Lee-Bradley-Brown-beaten-death-Dubai-police-cell.html#ixzz1JUXCA2s4

Another dumb lib tourist lost his life vacationing in an islamic "paradise".

And FIFA gave the World Cup to Soccer Powerhouse catar. PC pronounced "cutter" as all the sickening MSM "journalists" took pains to explain on their propaganda outlets.

I pronounce these places the way *I* see fit: HELL

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[jay]

http://www.quickanded.com/2010/02/effective-tax-rates-of-the-richest-400-americans.html
Verrryyy interesting!