Jer. I just left you a note on Bible study,and I miss the free space comment area here.It was a good idea to have semi daily.
Gosh,do I sound needy? I mean,you dont have a life outside of this blog do you? I think I need some sort of emoticon to dig myself out of this hole!!!!
I think I remember an emoticon that shows Jer hitting Spathy over the head with a fish or something.
I have it set up so that if you comment on a post that is older than a few days it must be moderated. This is because that is where most spamming occurs. I published your comments when I saw them in my e-mail box. Any time you post on recent posts it should go right through. I think if you become a follower(in the sidebar) it won't do this plus it automatically sends notices of posts here to any feeds you may have set up
You know what is funny about what I am about to post? My bookmark for Jer always comes up (post..Double minded Republicans)
Kicking the Can Over the Fiscal Cliff:
This is not proper copy and paste use,but I dont care at this point.
As it happened, the Simpson-Bowles report only got 11 votes, so the Congress could (and did) ignore it without looking like they were ignoring it.
Thus the deficit continues to grow as the can gets kicked closer and closer to the fiscal cliff.
The next bit of can-kicking came about after the 2010 mid-term elections which gave control of the U.S. House back to the GOP. Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner agreed to continue the Bush-era tax cuts - which were scheduled to automatically expire because a previous Congress couldn't agree on a permanent level for tax rates - which the Republicans wanted in return for extending unemployment benefits that the President wanted.
Those tax cuts will now expire on December 31, 2012 because … well, you see the pattern here.
There is also an two percent reduction in what are known as payroll taxes - Social Security and Medicare - that will expire on the same date because the Congress and the President want to give everything to everybody while making nobody pay for it - financially or politically.
On the other side of the equal sign there is the "sequester." That is the automatic spending cuts that were agreed to by the Congress in 2011 if what was known as the Super Committee of House and Senate members couldn't come up with a revenue and spending package that would begin to reduce the growing debt.
Of course they couldn't, but the cuts wouldn't begin until 2013 (can/kick/road) so everyone pretended the problem was temporarily solved (where do they find all these cans), but as we are now only weeks away from 2013, that road is coming to an end as well.
That all had to do with the fact that we were bumping up against the debt ceiling that Republicans would only agree to raise if the President would agree to spending cuts.
Only in the Alice-in-Wonderland reality of Washington, DC can a ceiling lead directly to a cliff.
So, what will happen? Have you not been listening?
The leaders of the House and Senate will work together with the President to attach helium-filled legislation to the can allowing it to drift right over the fiscal cliff.
I must state that in the case of Conservatism,its not insane to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. Now we can do the same thing with a different approach,But the only fruitful path is a Conservative basic truth.
If the participating American electorate has decided to go the route of Greece and the Myanmar republic? Than so be it. Our tried and true ideals will be there to pick up the remaining pieces and start a new.
Its not the better path. But America face down in the ditch might be the wake up call to the youth and the silent majority. I just hope I can survive without going on the gravy train of Gov!
Being able to put a simple hand pump well in my back yard could go a very long way to help. But NO Gov (local) seems fit to deny that simple need of a property owner.
Jer.
ReplyDeleteI just left you a note on Bible study,and I miss the free space comment area here.It was a good idea to have semi daily.
Gosh,do I sound needy?
I mean,you dont have a life outside of this blog do you?
I think I need some sort of emoticon to dig myself out of this hole!!!!
I think I remember an emoticon that shows Jer hitting Spathy over the head with a fish or something.
Spathy
DeleteI have it set up so that if you comment on a post that is older than a few days it must be moderated. This is because that is where most spamming occurs. I published your comments when I saw them in my e-mail box. Any time you post on recent posts it should go right through. I think if you become a follower(in the sidebar) it won't do this plus it automatically sends notices of posts here to any feeds you may have set up
Jer
Do I see an oval face with oversized ears within that calendar?
ReplyDeleteYou know what is funny about what I am about to post?
ReplyDeleteMy bookmark for Jer always comes up (post..Double minded Republicans)
Kicking the Can Over the Fiscal Cliff:
This is not proper copy and paste use,but I dont care at this point.
As it happened, the Simpson-Bowles report only got 11 votes, so the Congress could (and did) ignore it without looking like they were ignoring it.
Thus the deficit continues to grow as the can gets kicked closer and closer to the fiscal cliff.
The next bit of can-kicking came about after the 2010 mid-term elections which gave control of the U.S. House back to the GOP. Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner agreed to continue the Bush-era tax cuts - which were scheduled to automatically expire because a previous Congress couldn't agree on a permanent level for tax rates - which the Republicans wanted in return for extending unemployment benefits that the President wanted.
Those tax cuts will now expire on December 31, 2012 because … well, you see the pattern here.
There is also an two percent reduction in what are known as payroll taxes - Social Security and Medicare - that will expire on the same date because the Congress and the President want to give everything to everybody while making nobody pay for it - financially or politically.
On the other side of the equal sign there is the "sequester." That is the automatic spending cuts that were agreed to by the Congress in 2011 if what was known as the Super Committee of House and Senate members couldn't come up with a revenue and spending package that would begin to reduce the growing debt.
Of course they couldn't, but the cuts wouldn't begin until 2013 (can/kick/road) so everyone pretended the problem was temporarily solved (where do they find all these cans), but as we are now only weeks away from 2013, that road is coming to an end as well.
That all had to do with the fact that we were bumping up against the debt ceiling that Republicans would only agree to raise if the President would agree to spending cuts.
Only in the Alice-in-Wonderland reality of Washington, DC can a ceiling lead directly to a cliff.
So, what will happen? Have you not been listening?
The leaders of the House and Senate will work together with the President to attach helium-filled legislation to the can allowing it to drift right over the fiscal cliff.
And land on a brand new, shovel-ready, road.
Credit link:
http://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2012/11/12/kicking_the_can_over_the_fiscal_cliff/page/2
I must state that in the case of Conservatism,its not insane to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.
ReplyDeleteNow we can do the same thing with a different approach,But the only fruitful path is a Conservative basic truth.
If the participating American electorate has decided to go the route of Greece and the Myanmar republic? Than so be it.
Our tried and true ideals will be there to pick up the remaining pieces and start a new.
Its not the better path. But America face down in the ditch might be the wake up call to the youth and the silent majority.
I just hope I can survive without going on the gravy train of Gov!
Being able to put a simple hand pump well in my back yard could go a very long way to help.
But NO Gov (local) seems fit to deny that simple need of a property owner.
So without extreme measures(requiring lots o money)
ReplyDeleteMy only hope is to find a "corrupt"(desperate for money) well driller.
With a renewed Obama administration in place,I think my odds of finding that well driller just got better.
Its my world... I can hope and dream...............................................................................................................