For three years and more Beltway politics has been all about the deficit. Urgent action was needed to avert crisis. A Grand Bargain absolutely had to be reached. Fix the Debt, now now now!

So where are the celebrations now that the debt issue looks, if not solved, at least greatly mitigated? And it’s not just recovering revenues: health costs, the biggest driver of long-run spending, have slowed dramatically....the deficit progress must be minimized and bad-mouthed.

what was obvious all along: for many deficit nuts, it was never really about the debt, it was about using deficits as a way to attack the social safety net. Deficits may have come down, but not the way they were supposed to — hey, we were supposed to be kicking 65 and 66 year-olds off  Medicare, not doing something so goody-goody as managing costs better.

Health care is rising dramatically & in 5 years youll be crying in your water, cuz you wont
A; be able to pay for beer
or
B: Allowed to have any
because your health care provider wont let you

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 05/21/13 at 06:25:50:


This.


--Steve

Starlifter wrote on 05/21/13 at 12:47:50:


Star.. thanks for the response. Please note:

No one.. and I mean NO ONE on the planet is more ANTI FOX than I. Period. I have not watched them since 2006. I have the bedroom TV skip that channel.. so as to not even be bothered. So when responding to my posts.. please refrain simple insults. I was not insulting when I asked for sources. I truly did and do hope there is some shining light at the end of the tunnel. (PS: I have a very specific reason for hating Fox.. which actually has nothing to do with any political coverage.. odd as that sounds)

Secondly... now now.. you consistently slam other posts for using a biased source and then point me to "Politicususa Real Liberal Politics" as though that is unbiased or even any less biased than Fox. That really is reducing the level of the thread a few notches in my opinion.

As to the content of the article. They are mostly are referring to the budget deficit.. not the national debt. They also then compare this years deficit to the 2008 deficit.. both of which were under Obama.  
"It is the lowest level of deficit spending to date under President Obama, who faced $1 trillion or more in annual deficits during his first term.”

Which sadly is like my son proclaiming he will pass 9th grade English... but when pressed admits its with a 71. "golf clap"

Again.. I am not anti-Obama, I did not vote for him... but I did not vote for Mitt Romney either. And the issues facing the US would be there which-ever of the two were in office, and their response would be the same. However, I still firmly believe that QE and bailouts ( as started by Bush, and continued by Obama) are like a bill that repeatedly is being pushed back. At some point ... someone will have to pay it. Neither party wants to own up to it.. at least not when they are in power.. but want the other party to "take the hit" for it.

I do agree with the overall jist of the article.. the GOP is looking for a "crisis of the month" with which to beat up Obama as the leader of Democrats. They have to.. they have tossed conservatives aside in favor of liberal ideals in order to buy more votes. The problem is ... its really hard to "out democrat" a democrat. Which leaves the republicans with precious few to vote for them ( and thus they court the "new legal illegal voter".

PS: I posted (back then) that I was not unhappy with the tax increase and I was not unhappy with the sequester. And ( and you can quote me on this) Count on the Repubs to go on and on at the next presidential election that is was the DEMOCRATS that raised taxes... without mentioning that is was Bush that reduced taxes but only for his presidency.

Starlifter wrote on 05/20/13 at 21:56:24:


You certainly are creative!! That I must admit.

Ain't it the truth.