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Originally Posted by Guest
Neither.
What people do not either understand or accept is the game the politicians are playing....have been playing.....play in ernest when ever it is funding time again.
There are billions and billions of dollars of programs that are obsolete that consume budget dollars that are never touched as they are the favorites of which ever specific lawmaker is talking.
They have an unwritten code...if you do not go after my favorite programs/projects I will not go after yours. Hence obsolete and very expensive programs continue to remain funded. Using up valuable dollars that could in fact go a long way toward funding the needed programs of today.
But it is easier to cry wolf. Play the old shut down the government game. Point fingers. Get some special dispensation for delaying the inevitable and move the subject matter out in the calendar only to be repeated all over again when that time frame expires.
This budgeting and financial game playing is THE perfect example of our federal government incompetence and more perfect example of we the people continually ALLOWING these incompetents to continue.
Pure and simple....BS POLITICS!
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Does anyone recall our President appointing the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform called the Simpson Bowles commission ?
They were charged by the President to be honest and open about our fiscal problems.
The President did not like it, not did his economic guru Krugman thus it died.
Of note is that Nancy Pelosi was opposed but she keeps recently bringing it up.
It was an opportunity wasted and was the first of many little dances done on this stage of fiscal irresponsibility.