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The bits of Internet goodness that get stuck in my teeth.

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Reforming government is always the last resort of politicians — and tried only after they have exhausted every imaginable way to pry more money from taxpayers in order to fund the status quo and those who benefit from it.

Grover Norquist, “Why Republicans Should Never Raise Taxes

If I let my children watch as much TV as they wanted, they’d never read a book or go outside to play.

If we continue to let the government raise our taxes, they’ll never do the hard work of fixing what is painfully, obviously wrong with the system.

We have to stop settling for what is easy and start demanding what is best.

There is no doubt we need additional revenue, coupled with smart spending reductions, in order to bring down our deficit. And we can do it in a gradual way so that it doesn’t have a huge impact.

President Obama

The president is really good about following through on his promises to raise taxes, aka “additional revenue”. When is he going to start being as reliable about reducing spending? Tell me one significant spending cut he has proposed and enacted.

You literally, mathmatically cannot tax America enough to make up for the deficit. We have to have spending cuts and entitlement reform in order to balance the budget.

From the CBO, via The Washington Post. This ain’t right-wing nutjob propaganda, folks.
Anybody else concerned by how the gap on our “recovery” only seems to be growing? Maybe it’s time to try something new. View high resolution

From the CBO, via The Washington Post. This ain’t right-wing nutjob propaganda, folks.

Anybody else concerned by how the gap on our “recovery” only seems to be growing? Maybe it’s time to try something new.

Obama’s $842 billion in stimulus spending was supposed to get the unemployment rate down to 5.2% by now. The actual unemployment rate in November (calculated at the labor force participation rate assumed for the stimulus plan) was 10.8%. This is not only more than twice as high as the level promised, it is higher than the 10.4% rate (calculated on the same basis) that existed when Obama signed the stimulus bill into law.

Louis Woodhill, “Under Obama, Economic Stagnation Is the New Normal

This reminds me of a wonderful suggestion in the very helpful video “How To Vote Well”:

Assume that things will go much worse than expected. Whatever your side proposes to do, take your best estimate of the benefits and then cut them in half. Take your best estimates of the cost, and double them.

When will we stop enabling our government’s terrible financial habits? If your best friend had maxed out credit cards, would you ever suggest the best solution was raising their limit so they could charge more? Of course not!
Politicians continue to piss away our money, and somehow we’ve become enamored with giving them more? Does an alcoholic drunk need just one more drink? View high resolution

When will we stop enabling our government’s terrible financial habits? If your best friend had maxed out credit cards, would you ever suggest the best solution was raising their limit so they could charge more? Of course not!

Politicians continue to piss away our money, and somehow we’ve become enamored with giving them more? Does an alcoholic drunk need just one more drink?

(Source: danieljmitchell.wordpress.com)

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