2013
One would think that immediately after going through a budget/debt crisis the President’s top priority would be to get our fiscal house in order. That includes short and long term issues and most important, setting in motion changes that gradually bring our spending under control and in line with revenue. Nothing is more important for current and future generations. It’s no easy task because while doing all that, required spending must continue. Fixing our finances also requires telling people bad news, like telling your spouse to cut up the credit cards or canceling that trip to DisneyWorld.
Politicians don’t like communicating bad news, but real leaders know that doing what must be done is usually less painful by doing it sooner rather than later. Both political parties have avoided dealing with the real tough issues in some cases even denying they exist. It appears positioning for the next election always takes priority and the really sad part is … it works.
President Obama says he hasn’t given up on an immigration bill, and will push it after the government shutdown and debt ceiling disputes are resolved.
“Once that’s done — you know, the day after — I’m going to be pushing (Congress) to say, call a vote on immigration reform,” Obama told the Los Angeles affiliate of Univision, the Spanish language television network.
When these immigrants (and everyone else) learn what their “fair share” is to help pay for our fiscal irresponsibility, they may be heading south for the winter.
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The Tea Party racists are well on their way toward giving POTUS Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate in the 2014 elections. And, it won’t take Obama all of the remaining two years to get this entire Republican created mess completely cleaned up. He’ll leave Hillary a balanced budget and it won’t be done on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the disabled, the young, the veterans and the poor.
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It will be done on the backs of the middle class because that’s where the money is and that’s where the costliest of tax breaks reside. Why are elderly always in a separate class as if all elderly are poor? They may have lower incomes in many cases, but that is not being poor.
Dick
Richard D Quinn
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Here are some additional thoughts and ideas:
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, Pete Peterson, Stanley Druckenmiller and others are leading the charge to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If they succeed, millions of senior citizens, working families, disabled veterans and children will suffer.
Today, the middle class is disappearing, real unemployment is extremely high, poverty is increasing and working families throughout the country are struggling to keep their heads above water economically. Meanwhile, the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider and wider and the wealthiest people and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well.
When one out of four U.S. corporations pays nothing in federal income taxes, when Bush’s tax breaks for the rich remain in place for many wealthy Americans, when the U.S. spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defense, there are much fairer and economically sound ways to address the budget than cutting programs desperately needed by the most vulnerable people in our country.
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