There is little to like about the tentative agreement between Congressional leaders and the White House except that it happened at all. The deal would avert a catastrophic government default, immediately and probably through the end of 2012. The rest of it is a nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists. It will hurt programs for the middle class and poor, and hinder an economic recovery.Anything the NY Times hates that much can't be all that bad.
It is not yet set in stone, and there may still be time to make it better. But in the end, most Democrats will have no choice but to swallow their fury, accept the deal and, we hope, fight harder the next time.
It's amazing that we borrow $.40 of every dollar we spend, and yet the Times and the other libs don't think we have a problem. To them the government's purpose is to take from the haves and the producers and give to the have-nots as well as the lazy and stupid. That's how you keep them voting for you.
The liberals are facing a real dilemma these days. They're now beginning the awful realization that they're running out of other people's money to spend.
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It's not the THEY think they're running out of other peoples' money to spend, but that the other people have been alerted to it and are pushing back against them.
I can't find anything to get excited about in this 'deal'. The AP reports that most of the 'cuts' won't happen until 2014. Also, from what I've read, the 'cuts' are reductions in the deficit -i.e. they're lowering the increase in spending. So instead of another $9 trillion in spending, we'll only have another $8 trillion in spending.
Is it possible that the liberals are screaming bloody murder to throw off the conservatives?
I'm a contrarian. If the NYT is for it, I'm against it. If they are against it, I'm for it.
Same with other so called "major media" aka dinosaur media. They are all fellow travelers with each other, and think we the people haven't figured them out.
News flash: we have.
Amazing how my colleagues respond to news items of this sort. Last week, discussing the national budget impasse, these Master's Degree and Ph.D. educated professionals all sided with knee jerk reactions in their statements. Sticking to the secular humanist hard left. Not listening to anything new or different. No independent thinking allowed. Thanks, SEIU!
Whatever happened to doing what's for the good of the people of the WHOLE country, and not their particular friends that keep them in power?
God help us.
Underdog, you must work in education!! I feel your pain.
Yep, Nightingale, BINGO! I babysit - er- teach pupils -er- students.
And my gorgeous fetching wife, my Sweet Polly Purebred is a Registered Nurse. So I feel *your* pain.
We've got to stop meeting like this! (wide grin)
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