Republicans Latest Generality Has A Specific Target
Since voting unanimously against the stimulus bill didn’t provide dividends, and actually ended up hurting them in the court of public opinion, Republicans bravely set out to lay another egg. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Spending Freeze!
Also known as the first shot across the bow of Healthcare Reform.
Do they actually believe they’ll receive a pass on trying to kill Healtcare Reform by hiding behind a generic spending freeze platform? Heads up, everybody. The war on Healthcare Reform has begun.
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I’m announcing a spending freeze too.
How’s that been working out for you?
The strategy — in its very early stages — presents problems for Republicans who have not received any measurable uptick in support from their opposition to the economic stimulus package. Most of the party’s leadership is on record having supported Bush-era spending packages that grew the deficit. With the exception of a shrinking number of moderate Republicans from the northeast, all of the party’s members of Congress support further tax cuts, which would lead to revenue shortfalls.
HA!
I can’t believe that after almost a year of my blogging for DL that you’ve chosen this to be your first comment.
Announce away, big boy, we’ll chat when you get home. 😉
I remember that was McCain’s big idea during the debates. Everyone scoffed at the time. Republicans are going full McCain!
They are laying the groundwork to once again say we can’t afford healthcare.
But the GOP apparently can not afford to give up any of their staff.
Spending freezes and fiscal responsibility begin at home — isn’t that the deal? Somebody should send these people to Dick Cheney’s bunker for a really long time out.
What do they mean by spending freeze anyway? Are they wanting to shut down the government again?
I’m telling you, this is going to be their answer to why we can’t have healthcare.
And, UI, who the hell knows what they mean anymore!
http://www.delawarerepublican.wordpress.com for an intelligent counter to such knee jerk criticism.
Mike P
I just visited your site and didn’t find it very intelligent. However, I did find it strange that you had a picture of a president who let the terrorist kill 242 United States Marine’s in Beirut in 1983 and failed to respond. Ever since that day the terrorist knew we were a paper tiger and the attacks on this country began.
The knee jerk criticism is what comes from you, Mike, I’ve noticed.
I like this one: “Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist who wrote a book critical of George W. Bush’s spending, could not name many peers who believe that smaller deficits and less spending are the way to combat economic downturns. “It’s a total double-standard,” said Bartlett. “Republicans’ deficits stimulate, Democratic deficits don’t.”“
We’ll see who’s right in the end. I’m predicting we’re going to start hearing a lot of talk about a spending freeze and that this will be the Republican excuse/talking point when it comes to healthcare.
Mike; took a trip over to that parellel universe you recommended, tell me again what really creates jobs?
Show Throwing Instructor,
Businesses create jobs, not governments. They create them through profits and excess captial. In tough times like this, reducing costs enable them to do that.
This was proven during when Ronald Reagan and Pete DuPont did this during the 1980s. It works, you might want to try it.
I think that the career people in the DOD might quibble with that piece of stupidity.
I’m sure the military is surprised to hear that they don’t have jobs, according to the GOP.
There is a reason why the Iraq War is keeping 50000, and sending more troops to Afganistan, what the hell would we do with all those soldiers coming back to a country where there are no jobs. War is big business! While Obama is working on domestic elephant cleanup, the Pentagon is running foreign policy. I want to know the reason we are staying in Iraq, and what is our mission in Afganistan.
And I want to know why some people don’t address the point of the post! I sweated bullets over this thing! 🙂
PANDORA;
Health care reform is a tough topic to discuss on any foram, a health care topic was started on dow jones market watch tonight and the posters quickly switched to another topic. There is a lot of propoganda that has been put out there on purpose by the drug and insurance companys to confuse people that it hard to get them to discuss it unless they have been personally put thru hell thru illness in the family.
We are paying double what the rest of the industrilized world is paying for health care and yet are ranked only 35th in the world in overall quality by the world health orginization. The inflation rate in health care is higher than any other area of the economy and it stays in double didgets year after year. the average policy for a worker has risen from 3,817 per year in 1998 to over 9,000 a year in 2008. so in the year 2018 it will cost you 20,000 a year to have health care insurance.
The most comprehensive book on health care I have run across is Money Driven Medicine by Maggie Mahar. It should be read by everyone so you can seperate fact from fiction when it comes to what needs to be changed so that a need so basic to every one is at least affordable.
Jason O,Neill;
Business does not create a single job unless there is sufficiant consumer demand to support it. Our economy is contracting not expanding, businesses are laying off workers not hiring workers. During the great depression of the 1930`s government and government only created jobs.
Shoe Throwing Instructor:
I assume you are not an Instructor of Business or Economics. Consumers are not spending due to low confidence in the overall markets and the economy. To regain confidence again, they need to see signs of recovery.
To gain that recovery, businesses need to have profitability. The government can help by lowering their tax burden. The U.S. has the second HIGHEST corporate tax burden in the world. This is punishing the American business — the American dream. This affects not only the large corporations you liberals love to hate, but also the small businesses that want to expand or open up shop.
Oh by the way, large corporations only account for 5% of the jobs. It is the small shops owned by individuals or partners that account for the creation of 95% of the jobs in this country.
Continue raising taxes and you will ring a death knell on businesses forever.
Go ahead and look this up on Pete DuPont’s think tank: http://www.ncpa.org. You might learn something.
Here’s a question for you, Young Lickspittle O’Neill: Why is it OK to hate government, which we actually have some (albeit a very small amount) of input into, but not corporations, over which we have zero influence or control?
Corporations and businesses are integral to economic expansions through creation of jobs and offerings of products and services.
Government is to create laws and provide for basic infrastructure.
Ronald Reagan and former Governor Pete DuPont proved that government and business can partner together through lower taxes for corporations and individuals which created 25 years of economic expansion (1982-2007).
What we are facing now was created by bad legistlation (Community ReInvestment Acts), lack of government oversight by the FED, SEC and Congress of the financial services industry. Both sides of the aisle failed to address the quagmire we are in right now, and both are accountable.
Punishing businesses will only lead to continued loss of jobs, which is absolutely the wrong thing to do right now.
To gain that recovery, businesses need to have profitability. The government can help by lowering their tax burden.
We tried that supply side crap. It doesn’t work.
Now we are going to reduce the tax burden on their customers. Trickle-up, baby! Get used to it. Corporations and the wealthy will be too busy counting their money to complain about taxes.
We have waited patiently for almost 30 years for supply side to produce prosperity. The only time it came close was when we backed off from it during the 1990s.
What we are facing now was created by bad legistlation (Community ReInvestment Acts)
It takes a special kind of stupid to be so wrong about so much for so long.
So much for that Republican talking point. A new report from the FBI says that 80% of mortgage fraud was initiated by mortgage brokers.
FBI report