The Obama administration released an outline of its budget today and of course every third grader could have predicted the resulting hue and cry that came out of the Republicans, as well as the chorus of defenses that the Democrats were singing. It’s a shame the Republicans don’t have any imagination or smarts left. But then, hey it is early in the game and this is only an outline without details as of yet.
As the mouthpieces waggle their lips spouting ridiculous rhetoric, there are few key points that I’d love to make.
Before I get to that, I can’t vouch for the budget, and I can’t vouch against everything that is being criticized. I’m sure there are some things in the budget that I would personally be against. I am prepared to take the President at his word about transparency, and anyone who doesn’t think it will take some for that to be proven true or false is nothing but a sniveling opportunist at best. I buy the rationale that has been laid out about putting everything on the table, including the costs for the current wars that were previously off the table, and I buy the general logic that has been offered so far.
But to those points.
- Any politician, media type, or mouthpiece who tries to tell you that we aren’t going to need to raise revenue some way to get out of the ridiculous mess we’ve been accumulating over the last 20 years or so deserves to be tarred and feathered in public. Keep in mind that 44.5% of our nation’s debt was owned by foreign countries at the end of 2007. That percentage is probably higher now. Can we just stop that hypocrisy now.
- Can we just stop the farce that will continue about reporting on the budget battles ahead before they start? In a time where the media (all forms) are struggling to make ends meet in a disappearing economy, don’t you think folks would flock to their products if they actually offered some honest, non-politically connected analysis of this, instead of just parroting whatever talking points will come out of either side? Just a thought.
- While the Obama administration is playing (rightly so in my opinion) the transparency and honesty cards, let’s have them roll back the clock to last fall and tell us once and for all what happened prior to that weekend in September that apparently pulled the keystone out of the very shaky architecture that was holding the entire house of cards together, and had been for years. Let’s find out what shook our confidence so much so, that it changed the con game that was our economy into a sinking ship. Let’s get to the real bottom of this instead of just prolonging the guessing game, no matter how ugly, no matter where the chips end up falling.
- I see today that seemingly permanent boil on the country’s butt and sexual pervert, Dick Morris is blaming Obama for spreading the panic. His rationale is that a president needs to be more of the optimist in chief and not the truth teller, and he conveniently forgets how we got here. I guess he’d rather Obama speak up and tell us all to go shopping. Fair enough, it is a new day, and he’s allowed his opinion, and yes, it seems with every painful step that the Obama administration is taking, we see bad news follow. I’d lighten up on the current blame though if I were you Dick. Because if we ever do roll back the clock to look at where these problems began, I think we’ll find that you were slobbering in that president’s here as he worked to co-opt the Republican agenda, egging him onwards while you were diggling with call girls. The point of this point isn’t to single out Morris. Everyone on either side knows he’s just a sad clown outside of the center ring, who keeps the crowd entertained. My point is I’d like to start singling out individuals, whether they be politicians, advisers, media types, bankers, lawyers, whatever, who had a hand in all of these shenanigans. The only way we might leaders and heroes to get us out of this mess is to identify some of the villains.
I’m sure I’ll have more as this goes on, but that’s enough food for thought at the moment.
