The Democratic Party has been quick to blame the American Tea Party for the S&P downgrade, and Obama seems to agree. The Tea Party and a "small minority of house Republicans " are blamed for the failure of the Congress to come to a better solution to the debt-deficit issue.
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They have turned the issue from their crazy and
unprecedented spending to blaming the Tea Parties for trying to stop it. The issue seems to be to them no longer about
their failure to come to grips with their horrible economic management, but
about the fact that we Americans are sick and tired of it. The fact is, if the Tea Parties did not exist
and did not blow the whistle, we would be going over the cliff right now.
Obama would have us $18 trillion in debt at this moment with more coming
and S&P would have us at a “D” rating.
Do not blame the Paul Reveres of the modern day. The Tea Parties want our children to have a
future and our grandchildren to have a dime to spend; Obama and the Democrats
do not. Why? The answer is simple: in order to force us
into a socialistic society, they must first destroy our business economy and that, my American friend, is what this is all about.
My fellow Americans, this
is where the rubber meets the road. Stand
up and be counted.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. Is there any way we can reverse the economic mess? (Jenny ~ Reno, NB)
A. We can start by reversing this last debt limit increase
bill and passing the cut, cap and balance bill that the House originally passed
and which got shut down in the Senate. Unfortunately, Obama will not sign
that. I think we’re stuck in this morass until Obama
gets voted out of office. The day that
happens, look for the stock market to soar, businesses to start hiring and
birds to start singing.
Q. What do you think of the 1% annual cut proposal, where we
cut this year’s budget by 1%, then next year’s, etc. for ten years? (Jim ~ Redding, CA)
A. It’s a cop out. It
does not cut enough up front. Just like
this last, lame legislation, it is patently designed so that Obama can keep his
spending programs through the end of 2012.
We need cuts now, today, this minute.
There was a concept of trimming spending back to 2008 levels and that
might do it, as would the cut, cap and balance plan that the House originally
passed and got snubbed by the Senate. We
do need to implement change in Social Security and
Medicare and we need to scrap ObamaCare. We also need to drastically cut the President’s
travel budget.
Q. Wow! You nailed
it! You were the only one that I saw who
said he thought the market would open Monday and be “tepid” for a while and
then plummet. It opened down a little
over 200 and hung around that figure, +/- 50 points for an hour or so before
starting to drop and then it went down and down. What’s going to happen Tuesday? (Clemmie ~ Sacramento,
CA)
A. S&P downgraded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac yesterday
and the rumble is that there are a lot of state and municipal governments they
are reviewing. More bad news will mean a
further drastic decline; no news should bring a morning decline with a slight
recovery in the afternoon as investors buy back in and try to recoup some
losses. Net for the day under the latter
scenario will be a loss, but not as big as Monday by far; it could be a
break-even. The bad news? This could
be a rundown that causes an international tumble and leads us into a
worldwide depression. Notice, I said “could;” it has a lot of the indicators.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“Economic depression cannot be cured by
legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed
by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers
themselves.” ~ Herbert Hoover
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