Debt talks show breakdown in governing
“…It’s clear that House Republicans are the principal obstacle to any grand bargain that includes substantial new revenue. Their rigid opposition runs contrary to public opinion, which shows that a majority of the country believes that a deficit-reduction package should include both spending cuts and new taxes.”
The freshman Republicans came to Washington determined to cut spending and not raise taxes. They also came with the attitude that past Republican Congresses had been too compliant and too willing to make compromises that in fact boosted spending. They have an aversion to compromise that is as strong as their opposition to taxes.
Cassi Creek: Public opinion poll results indicate that a majority of Americans are willing to see taxes increased in order to reduce our national debt. The link below leads to the poll results.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postabcpoll_071711.html
Washington Post-ABC News Poll
“This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone July 14-17, 2011, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York.”
*= less than 0.5 percent
Cassi Creek:
The teavangelist/GOP desire to eliminate government indicates how poorly informed and educated the teavangelist/GOP voter base (and elected officials truly are.
The many aspects of government that are heavily involved in our daily existence depend upon government in visible &/or invisible form. The pseudo-populist teavangelists and base seem unable to distinguish the invisible forms.
The facts that Medicare and Social Security are government programs still elude some of the teavangelists, although I fail to understand how. Less understood to be an agent of government are such things as Transportation safety, a standard target of GOP cost-cutters along with the FDA, CDC, NIH, & dozens of other agencies that provide for common protection. The FAA’s maintenance of safe air traffic belongs to government. So does the assurance of food, cosmetics, and drug safety. China and other lowest-bid manufacturing nations have been proven to ship us adulterated medications, counterfeit medications, adulterated and contaminated food.
The teavangelist mob has been conditioned by its Limbaugh minions to demand that government be removed from providing the services currently obtained from the FAA, CDC, NIH, & FDA. We demand products and services at lowest cost and then experience aircraft crashes, salmonella and E. coli infections, & lethal pet foods. I don’t trust Chinese companies or Mexican companies, or their U.S. buyers to tell us that their products are unsafe. I don’t trust an airline to tell me that a plane crashed because counterfeit parts were used to keep maintenance costs low. The GOP may trust business. I trust business less than I trust Congress.
It’s time to stop the “no taxes – starve government” bullshit. All of those legislators and their voter base need only look as far south as Mexico to see where their demands lead the nation.
If that’s not a bleak enough prediction, send them to Somalia. A one-way ticket will be fine. They most likely won’t survive long enough to book a flight out.
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