Feb 28 and the Economy is Rolling

Here’s the deal! Oh, there is no deal! Congress is going to screw the nation again by failing to act on the Sequester problem – just when the economy seemed to be really picking up steam!
by Charlie Leck

Don’t you just love Congress – both of the bastards (the House and the Senate)? They have been an absolute laughing stock for the last eight years. They’ve been unable to cooperate and unwilling to have civil discussions on sensible compromise.

I’ve got my theory about what’s wrong with our Congress and that theory boils down to a guy named Grover and a political movement called the Tea Party.

I don’t mind if you vote for Republicans the next time around, just don’t vote for them if they have any association or sympathy whatsoever for the far right movement called the Tea Party.

If you want to be a sensible, responsible voting citizen, look for true moderates and true progressives for whom to vote.

Here’s why!
(1) Our sea ports are falling apart and, as the big, Minnesota company, Cargill, is warning us, this is going to affect international trade if we don’t get this problem fixed. (2) The nation’s federal highway system (both its roads and its bridges) is in terrible condition and this is going to affect national commerce, international trade and tourist travel if we don’t get this problem fixed. (3) The U.S. military system needs some major reformation to get it ready for a much more high-tech world than that for which it was originally built and that will require additional spending rather than decreased spending. (4) The economy is begging to break out and turn bullish and Congress won’t cooperate by setting it free. (5) Jobs are starting to be available in every part of the nation, but that good news can turn sour very quickly if the Sequester lasts even a short while. (6) The airline industry, already shaky, could really take a beating if it has to start canceling flights because available ground employees of the federal government aren’t available to help them take off.

Increase Taxes! Increase Spending!
The fact of the matter is that our nation needs a strong influx of federal cash to keep it rolling. Think of it as an investment because the return will be enormous if we can fix roads, bridges, airports, waterways, sea ports, ground transportation systems and the our military readiness. You might want to thrown improved schools into this mix as well.

What the radical conservatives of the Republican Party are talking about is the exact (180◦) opposite of this.

Sit back and watch it happen – or, get after your Congressional representatives and tell them, for God’s sake (I mean it!), to do something for a change. If you think it doesn’t do any good to write, email or phone them you are just absolutely wrong… wrong… wrong!

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Wolf! Wolf!

You can cry wolf only so many times! Mr. Simpson and Mr. Bowles (of The Alan and Erskine Show fame) are back again and crying into their microphones about the social calamity that awaits us if we don’t screw all middle class Americans at the profit of the wealthy.
by Charlie Leck

The nation is crawling out of its long, dark economic hole. The Republicans actually don’t want it to be so. They predicted an end-of-the-world type of financial calamity and now they are disappointed they didn’t get it. The Grand Old Party, now controlled by absolute nut-cases, is out to protect the phenomenally rich against any attempt to increase taxes. It has to do with some irrational pledge Republicans took years ago – actually signed their names to – and in the face of current strong evidence that such a tax hike is both necessary and fair, the party of the far right insists that they won’t concede even though they have been soundly defeated at the voting booth.

Whatever happened to the idea of listening to the voters?

Paul Krugman called the irrational conservatives a “Sequester of Fools” in a recent New York Times column – you know, a gaggle of geese, a congregation of alligators, a pride of lions and now a sequester of fools. Wonderful!

So the February 28 deadline for spending cuts approaches and the GOP, pridefully and not reasonably, is ready to drag the nation down its next dark alley to financial ruin. The hell with reality! Begone with the truth! Down with economic sense!

This is a wounded political party in action and there is nothing more dangerous in all of society.

For how long shall we suffer the fools? The nation is poised to break into a new and exciting day of economic success, and the Republican Party, under the control of the Tea Party, wants to bag it all in order to protect a small percentage of billionaires and mega-millionaires.

Behold the pace of asses!

“Messrs. Bowles and Simpson had their moment — the annus horribilis of 2011, when Washington was in thrall to deficit scolds insisting that, in the face of record-high long-term unemployment and record-low borrowing costs, we forget about jobs and concentrate exclusively on a 'grand bargain' that would supposedly (not actually) settle budget disputes for ever after.

“That moment has now passed; even Mr. Bowles concedes that the search for a grand bargain is on 'life support.' Let’s convene a death panel! But the legacy of that year of living foolishly lives on, in the form of the 'sequester,' one of the worst policy ideas in our nation’s history.” [Paul Krugman, in A Sequester of Fools)

  

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