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The first-rate idiots behind the new second-rate power

doc, aka Rich Wrote: Feb 10, 2013 2:22 PM

When you get used to over spending, there is no cure without cutting back. If cutting back is painful, one needs to remember that continued overspending leads to bankruptcy which is a whole lot more painful. Politicians (Dem and Rep) that couldn't comprehend the concept of living within their means brought us to this place where there is no way out without pain. Thinking there is a way out of debt while continuing do spend as much as one desires is the height of insanity, and anyone who puts their faith in such policy is an embarrassment to common sense.

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doc, aka Rich Wrote: Feb 10, 2013 2:29 PM

How many times do you hear of diet plans where you never have to stop over-eating? There are people who believe such claims. Apparently fools like this now represent a voting majority of our nation's electorate. This alone is a very depressing thought for our future.

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Delta Wrote: Feb 10, 2013 2:25 PM

You put it very well. Thanks.

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The first-rate idiots behind the new second-rate power

February 10, 2013

“It will begin. It will last ten years. It will be good for the economy. It will be very helpful,” anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist said recently. The “it” he refers to is what’s become known as “the sequester” — automatic spending cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that were originally proposed and then signed into law by President Barack Obama, after being passed by both Houses of Congress.

Since everyone from Mr. Obama to the backest-bench blowhard congressman argues that we need to curtail out-of-control deficit spending, the...

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