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It just shows you that they can work together when they need to. Both sides are doing CYA work here, nothing more.
Neither side really cares about budgeting; they just want their pet projects funded no matter what.
Just goes to show that republicans, dispite the rhetoric, love to spend money too.
That's been obvious for ... well, decades.
Case in point -- in the 2000 elections the GOP held the House and Senate but gained the Presidency. What happened? No more balanced budgets. Tax cuts during war (something no previous President had been dumb enough to do) with the empty promise that they would fill the federal coffers (of course, the opposite happened) and a huge unfunded mandate (Medicare Plan D).
Neither side wants to cut because that involves taking money away from people. Take away their money and they won't vote for you.
And what we're doing is actually giving more money away to people. If you keep giving away money you don't have and refuse to make any cuts what do you think will eventually happen ?
You can view our federal government as a budgetary drug addict. The GOP is trying to rehabilitate the patient, while it craves ever-increasing drug doses, without killing the patient. Sad that the Dems and the patient are co-dependents.
The solution is fiscal conservatism through Constitutional Conservatism. The powers that be in the GOP (RINOs) do not really care to shrink the size/scope of the federal government any more than the entitlement spending, wealth redistributing Democrat Progressives
The way of spending, spending, spending is the road to this country's bankrupcy. Eventually the statists on both sides of the aisle are going to run out of OPM (other people's money). The ensuing crash/withdrawl may indeed kill the patient.
The policy setters largely care only about the accumulation of their wealth and their power, not the long-term viability of this nation or the individual liberty of the people.
The GOP has become the Get Obama Party. Nothing else matters to them. At all. Not even improving living conditions for the rapidly vanishing U.S. middle class.
Kick the can down the road some more. Don't worry our grandkids will pay for it is the attitude all these fools have. When the government spending bubble bursts it will make the dot com and housing bubbles look like walk in the park.
So, the GOP's solution is to tell the family they'll force the patient into rehab, then quietly slip him a few more drugs when nobody is looking?
I hate to sound like a scratched CD, but we older folks have seen this con before. You younger people who weren't born or who weren't politically aware back then may not know it, but this sleight of hand is nothing new.
In the 90's, we elected a GOP majority which promised fiscal responsibility. What we got was the nation's first $500 billion deficit in 2000. Then, we elected them again on the same promise, along with George Bush, and got the nation's first $Trillion deficit (2008).
How many more times will we fall for it?
To put it as politely as possible, anyone of your age who has experienced what you have experienced and find yourself still standing with the Democratic party, expecting fiscal responsibility from them, can be considered an old fool.
I half expected this. No one wants to rock the boat before an election, regardless of party.
All about re-election, regardless of party.
If you vote Republican or Democrat, its a waste folks, I hope you wake up.
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