Fiscal Suicide: Your Moms is a Hypocrite
One of the most popular criticism’s from the left is the Republicans have no authority to speak aboot fiscal responsibility now, what with the last eight years of fiscal irresponsibility. The word hypocrite is used a lot. They have a point. The R’s for the past few years have forgotten that they were R’s. They spent federal money recklessly and raised the national deficit. The fact that President Obama is just more of the same of that is just a minute little detail people are free to ignore.
The part aboot hypocrisy is what gets me, simply because it’s really nothing new. In 1960 it was the bastion of liberal ideology John F. Kennedy who wanted to cut taxes, and you had the Republican Party using the class warfare rhetoric, saying things like “tax cuts for the rich.” And I’m not talking aboot squishy moderates; I mean cats like Barry Goldwater were saying this. I’m willing to guess that throughout our country’s history, Republicans and Democrats have been on both sides of every issue at one point or another.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to what you believe. And here are five few simple things I expect no matter who’s in charge:
I expect my elected officials to read the bills before they sign them.
I don’t want to hear anyone say “it’s not perfect” and “I know it’s flawed” when you’re asking for $1 TRILLION from me and my fellow taxpayers…and $1 TRILLION we need to borrow from someone else in the first place.
I have a right to know how my tax money is being spent, and am entitled to expect each of my 537 elected officials to justify it.
I don’t want it done fast, I want it done right. For $1 TRILLION, you can take an extra week instead of sticking to arbitrary deadlines.
I’m not impressed by scare tactics, using children as human shields, or dismissing my difference of opinion as me being too stupid to know any better.
So yeah, when we’re on the brink of a bill that is going to cost over $1 TRILLION to allegedly save or create jobs – when it doesn’t seem to do anything to save my job, help my employer help me save my job, help my friends and family save their jobs, or help their employers save their jobs (none of us are union and/or in construction) – and I don’t feel my President and the people voting to pass this bill have done enough to answer these five simple concerns, I get to disagree regardless of what others in my party have said in the past.
That doesn’t make me a hypocrite. That just means I have a different opinion than you.
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I am not taking issue with your post per se. It seems pointless to rehash “Kennedy lowered taxes 50 years ago so everyone is a hypocrite right now” theory of economics. Also, a minor point, you (none of us) have 537 representatives. Everyone gets 3, plus the president. You are going to be lucky if you get any 2 of those to agree with you.
Left and right ended with the cold war. The real battle is are we positioned to win in the 21st Century.
Here is what we face — without taking liberal or conservative stances:
- lowering taxes is the same as borrowing from the Chinese to the tune of $1T. It will give most Americans $2,000 in breaks (assuming they pay that much). It will instantly go to buy electronics made in China. Circuit City gets to live another 60 days.
- meanwhile your bridges and roads are falling apart. State governments can only either do a bond (likely) or raise the gas tax (unlikely) to fix that problem. Guess who gets to pay the interest on that for the rest of your lives?
- Teachers today get paid $11/hr entry and maybe $20/hr for most of their profession. And they need to get a 4 year college education before they can do that lucrative job! Is that what we want? Is that the best education we can offer the next generation?
- Meanwhile, 4 million Americans are out of work. There is no place for them to go. There are no new jobs. Everything is coming to a halt. Every small business is now at risk of closing. Every one of them. Drop their income by 10% and 80% of them go under.
- Yes, everything is on the line — everything, including your job.
And your plan is ?