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Originally Posted by Bucco
I realize that you look down on my posts but you never responded to post #50 in the thread "What is Obama hiding"...and would like to hear what you think......this is a partial quote...
""Budget policy experts, including former CBO Director Alice Rivlin and Robert Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, strongly endorsed the idea of giving Congress the first half of next year to come up with a comprehensive package or framework of savings and tax revenues, with the threat of the major tax expirations hanging over them.
“The fiscal cliff is a real cliff,” Rivlin said. “ It would be very bad for the economy and very bad for a lot of things people care about if we let all of the tax cuts expire all at once and the Alternative Minimum Tax and all the things that are in the cliff as well as the sequester.”
“It’s called [by some] kicking the can down the road,” she said. “It shouldn’t be. It is moving the fiscal cliff for a few months. It’s still there.”
And while nobody would disagree on the incompetence of our congress..YOU are not the only one who is aware, but I also in that post pointed out some positive things that are happening. I realize this is the mantra right now for the left..oh that cannot be...they do not play politics..only the Republicans..my bad. BUT lets then talk about all the bills sitting in the Senate that Reid will not even allow to be discussed let alone come to a vote.
You can rail, and you will on Republicans all you want, and THAT is a common theme in all your posts, but the congress is dysfunctional...NOT the Republican side of congress only. That attitude is what got us here.
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Bucco, I'm not differentiating between the parties--they're both self-serving to their ideological interests and special interest donors. Together they are dysfunctional.
You continually remind us that you predicted Obama's incompetence and character weaknesses. I'll take the opportunity to remind
you that I predicted that there would be no change in spending after the GOP won the House in the 2010 mid-term elections. The House doesn't need a Senate-approved budget to cut appropriation bills. But they haven't. The House, which has the government purse strings, has continued to spend like drunken sailors.
Harry Reid and the Senate? Of course he's serving as the leading political obstructionist in the Congress. But I predict that if the GOP gains the majority in the Senate in a few months and a new GOP Majority leader is elected,
there'll be no difference!
Somehow you keep reading a political agenda into my posts. What's more accurate is what I used to use as my "signature" here...
never vote for an incumbent!
Let's throw them all out--apply our own version of term limits--and keep throwing them out with each election until we convince those elected to represent us that they should do just that.