The Huffington Post's Senior Political Editor Howard Fineman, along with The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" tonight to discuss the House GOP's recent budget cuts and the possibility of a government shutdown.
Fineman reiterated his belief that Tea Partiers in the House "might make the mistake of standing up and cheering if the government is shut down." He also stated that in polls, "the American people...say they want to cut the budget, but they also don't want social programs touched." He elaborated on this contradiction, explaining that "even though they [the American people] talk a great game about being concerned about the deficit, they really aren't willing to give up anything that they have" in terms of programs like Social Security.
When it comes to the possibility of the government shutting down, Fineman said that the Obama Administration is already warning of potential consequences such as social security checks not arriving in the mail. He also thinks that GOP House leadership is prepping for the chance of a shutdown by explaining to fellow Republicans how to blame it on the Democrats should it occur.
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I figured this out using the 2007 Total Net Worth data from the UC Santa Cruz research paper, "Who Rules America".
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
I feel like when people call him by his first and last name that its not only a sign of great disrespect but it feels like that person has to emphasize the fact that he has a Middle Eastern / Muslim sounding name to fuel the Obama is a Muslim crazies on the right.
The other half of the equation is the outlay. We can't afford our present military spending plain and simple. It's 533 billion ton elephant sitting in the room. Cut it in half and we will be near the rate of spending that scared Eisenhower in the 1950's. This madness has no place in our country. We've seen what happens when military spending gets too high. One only needs to look to the history of the Soviet Union. We all know how that ended.
Just leave that to Faux News.
Here’s a very good example. Remember LBJ’s “War on Poverty”? Tax payers have spent Trillions to eradicate poverty and how is that working out? I would contend that it has failed miserably. At least Bill Cosby recognizes this fact and is working to correct it. You see, this so called “help” has hurt the black community more than any other.
Unintended consequences don’t seam to be ever looked at by progressives. They think and bleed from the heart, not the head.
Progressives like Obama, Nancy, Bush, Clinton, Carter, FDR, LBJ, etc. have put this country in its most dangerous, vulnerable position in over fifty years. The jig is up, time to pay the pauper.
we are cutting already scant social services and extending ridiculous tax cuts to the oogle wealthy...
...its morally wrong
1. The sharply escalating costs of health care causing sharp increases to the costs of programs like VA health, Medicare, etc.
2. The reduction of tax revenues below the histiric percentage of GDP
3. Defense, largely the result of the costs of the undfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
It is not from the 12ish% of the budget the Republican Tea Party is pretending to cut, and it is not from the childish mantra of "waste, fraud and abuse". Cut 100% of non-defense discretionary and find and eliminate 100% of waste, fraud and abuse and the long term structural budget deficit will be virtually identical to what it is right now.
By the way, how are the job creation efforts coming Republican Tea Party?