“Today’s shocking jobs report,” write Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, “represents a modern record of 29 straight months with unemployment above 8 percent, and falls on the 800th day since congressional Democrats have passed a budget.” (Emphasis added.) (Via Instapundit.)
Congressional Democrats may not yet have had the fortitude to pass a budget, but, well, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid did have the chutzpah to stage an act of political theater earlier this week, putting forward a “Sense of the Senate” on “shared sacrifice” holding that “any agreement to reduce the budget deficit should require that those earning $1,000,000 or more per year make a more meaningful contribution to the deficit reduction effort.”
So, the Nevada Democrat is trying to get Republicans on record as voting against a tax hike on the wealthiest Americans while failing to pass a budget funding the federal government? What kind of leadership is that?
He and his fellow partisans demagogue Republicans for details in their plan to cut spending and make Medicare solvent, yet haven’t come up with a plan of their own. Seems one party is serious about confronting the nation’s fiscal challenges while the other is more interested in confronting its partisan adversaries.
Senator Reid wants Medicare to collapse so ObamaCare can be enacted much faster to be single-payer; it’s that simple. Nevermind, ObamaCare remains an albatross for all Democrats.
And let’s pound the Obamabots with a prime example.
Obama puppets like Levi, Counterfail, and others whine about how Hollywood and the entertainment industry are the “creative class” and how it just proves that Obama Party members are so much smarter that Hollywood supports them.
Looks like Hollywood’s been living on “corporate welfare”.
So how does that work, Levi? You and your Barack Obama Party shriek about “tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires”. You whine and cry that it doesn’t create jobs, it doesn’t help us compete internationally, and that it takes money away from more worthy causes.
And here you and your most reliable leftist supporters insist that they need tax cuts and other of what you call “corporate welfare” to create jobs and to compete internationally.
Hypocrisy. Pure, unadulterated, stinking hypocrisy.
The WaPo has a feature about the five myths about the debt ceiling and the progressives are all out in force in the comments screaming about how we can not stop payment on the bills we have incurred.
What is curious is that the Progressives have no interest in cutting spending forward to capture money for paying bills that are due. Nor do they have any particular concern that there is no current budget or even a hint of getting a current budget on paper.
The WaPo article even states that the debt “ceiling” is unnecessary. It is the job of the Treasury to crank out checks and pay the bills and balance the payments through the sale of bonds without regard to an “artificial” ceiling. In other words, never change Ponzis in the middle of the scheme.
There is no doubt that past spending and entitlements are promises made. There is also no doubt that bankruptcy is a cold shower on promises made.
GM turned into a retirement scheme with a car company attached.
The US government has turned into an entitlement sow that is nourished by direct infusions from a relatively small per cent of taxpayers who are, themselves, only about half of the population in general.
Nearly half of the population directly benefits from the other half and has no or very little skin in the game.
Progressives are on the side of buying votes from those who benefit from government handouts with taxes taken from those who produce wealth. A 50-50 split is territory for open rebellion. The Progressives are whipping up the resentment and stirring the pot. They warn us that they are concerned about pitchforks and torches. But they take no claim for incendiary rhetoric.