Moron
Steny Hoyer seems pretty stupid, you know, for an educated, “elite”, kind of fellow.
Military members are under paid, relative to risk and responsibilities. Now is NOT the time to cut their pay.
Federal employees, however, are over paid and except for paper cuts at very little risk. We need to not only cut their pay, but also cut their numbers, their duties, and their reach.
Hoyer is of age to have served, but never did. I don’t require it in order to speak about military issues, but this level of stupidity rises to the point where the man’s qualifications should be questioned.
His is a classic Democratic stupidity. HIs “constituency”, Federal district workers, aren’t happy, and he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the country in his efforts to please them. What is so stupid about it is that the Federal workers, if asked, wouldn’t want what is happening to them to also happen to members of the military.
Pssstt…. Hey Steny… there’s a WAR ON.
December 1st, 2010 at 10:23 am
Another example of stout defenders for any group getting government funding. “Just cut X” will go nowhere in a democracy except into the blogosphere for entertainment. We will not get the deficit down until we come up with a grand bargain of some sort where everyone feels that everyone else is making some similar sacrifice. Cutting the benefits of the lower economic classes while cutting the taxes of the upper economic class, for example, won’t fly. The rich have the money to buy legislation but the middle class has the votes to veto it.
December 1st, 2010 at 10:31 am
So there you have it. We will fail. Nice system.
December 1st, 2010 at 8:14 pm
I don’t expect failure; I expect a grand compromise that makes everyone somewhat unhappy with their dashed unrealistic expectations of getting the “right” solution. The rich will pay more taxes and the rest will give up some government services. And we will continue to muddle at a lower deficit level.
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:58 am
If the rich pay more taxes, we will fail. Some compromise.
December 2nd, 2010 at 9:08 am
You expect a compromise in which you contribute nothing? What’s mine is mine; what’s yours is negotiable?
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:06 am
I’m already giving. In spades. And I don’t want compromise, I want something that WORKS and spending other people’s money never does.