Comments on: Deficit addition more likely $14 TRILLION http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/deficit-addition-more-likely-14-trillion-6165 Politics, Technology, and other stuff from St. George, UT Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: TR http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/deficit-addition-more-likely-14-trillion-6165/comment-page-1#comment-2796 TR Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:07:27 +0000 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/?p=6165#comment-2796 Obama want more executive power as if he didn't have much. Really? http://www.opm.gov/feddata/html/2008/may/charts.asp#branch Obama want more executive power as if he didn’t have much.
Really?

http://www.opm.gov/feddata/html/2008/may/charts.asp#branch

]]> By: Ken http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/deficit-addition-more-likely-14-trillion-6165/comment-page-1#comment-2792 Ken Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:55:06 +0000 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/?p=6165#comment-2792 what are you talking about? A deal? That is stupid. That is all Republicans have been doing for decades. That is wrong. The basic problem is intractable. We just will fail. The only question is how soon and how hard. As I've said many times... next time around, no 16th amendment. what are you talking about? A deal? That is stupid. That is all Republicans have been doing for decades. That is wrong.

The basic problem is intractable. We just will fail. The only question is how soon and how hard.

As I’ve said many times… next time around, no 16th amendment.

]]> By: Carl Nelson http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/deficit-addition-more-likely-14-trillion-6165/comment-page-1#comment-2791 Carl Nelson Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:50:41 +0000 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/?p=6165#comment-2791 And the beat goes on; I have heard that line for my fifty years of adult life from Ike to Barrack. I'll believe you're serious about an actual solution when you propose giving up some of your enshrined principles in return for a deal. For without a grand deal that costs both sides a lot of pain, the screeching will go on but action will not. And the beat goes on; I have heard that line for my fifty years of adult life from Ike to Barrack. I’ll believe you’re serious about an actual solution when you propose giving up some of your enshrined principles in return for a deal. For without a grand deal that costs both sides a lot of pain, the screeching will go on but action will not.

]]> By: Ken http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/deficit-addition-more-likely-14-trillion-6165/comment-page-1#comment-2788 Ken Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:19:38 +0000 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/?p=6165#comment-2788 Deficits are not bad or good. Debt interests, however, are real and will soon consume our budget. Republicans, correctly, beleive that taxes are too high. The only answer is to cut spending - a LOT. Deficits are not bad or good. Debt interests, however, are real and will soon consume our budget.

Republicans, correctly, beleive that taxes are too high. The only answer is to cut spending – a LOT.

]]> By: Carl Nelson http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/deficit-addition-more-likely-14-trillion-6165/comment-page-1#comment-2785 Carl Nelson Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:27:14 +0000 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/?p=6165#comment-2785 Deficits and the national debt are so-o-o useful, and so-o-o spinnable. Bad deficit is one that can be blamed on the other party, and good deficit is one that pays for your party's stuff - tax cuts, expensive wars, and new Medicare programs, for example. Deficits are bad only in the abstract, but never bad enough to actually do something about it, like raising taxes or cutting programs. The last serious deficit remedy was Bill Clinton's 1993 tax-and-cut deal that not a single Republican voted for. Before that GHWB and the Congress made a deal. Since GHWB lost re-election and Clinton lost the Congress after the deals, neither party will budge from its crouch posture as advocate for its base. I'm still waiting for a Republican to be for a tax increase or a Democrat for a program cut as a prelude to a grand deal. Each simply wants the other to pay to attack the problem. Deficits and the national debt are so-o-o useful, and so-o-o spinnable. Bad deficit is one that can be blamed on the other party, and good deficit is one that pays for your party’s stuff – tax cuts, expensive wars, and new Medicare programs, for example. Deficits are bad only in the abstract, but never bad enough to actually do something about it, like raising taxes or cutting programs. The last serious deficit remedy was Bill Clinton’s 1993 tax-and-cut deal that not a single Republican voted for. Before that GHWB and the Congress made a deal. Since GHWB lost re-election and Clinton lost the Congress after the deals, neither party will budge from its crouch posture as advocate for its base.

I’m still waiting for a Republican to be for a tax increase or a Democrat for a program cut as a prelude to a grand deal. Each simply wants the other to pay to attack the problem.

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