Tuesday, November 22, 2011

SUPER COMMITTEE AIN’T SO SUPER


The much ballyhooed Congressional “Super Committee” admitted yesterday that they could not reach agreement on a $1.2 trillion reduction in spending over the next ten years. 

COMMENTS:
Now we’ll wait for the next expected shoe to drop, that the increase in taxes and reduction in defense spending will not occur, either.  Then Congress can leave town while the nation stews over the Thanksgiving Day weekend.  Isn’t that what I have been saying was going to happen all along?  Why we taxpayers allowed this sham to be perpetrated upon us, I will never know.  I don’t know about you, but I think every damned Member of Congress should be locked into the Capitol 12 hours a day, seven days a week starting tomorrow and lasting until they trim the $4 trillion that has to be trimmed to save the country.  Either that or we should close down the government until after the 2013 Inauguration because, frankly, this government is as useless as tits on a boar hog.  That should give you a good visual while you are eating your turkey… 

TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. They’re giving more and newer sanctions on Iran.  Isn’t this a stupid idea?  It hasn’t worked yet, why will it work now?  (Lila ~ San Pedro, CA)
A. It’s the only option Obama can come up with.  Besides, he is in campaign mode and anything involving a difficult or controversial decision will automatically get pushed past the 2012 elections, by which time Iran may have its nukes anyway. 

Q. What will happen if Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s gives us another credit rating reduction?  (Barney ~ Redding, CA)
A. Obama will send in a team to investigate them, just like he did when Standard & Poor’s did it the first time.  He will do everything he can to discredit anyone who rains on his Messiah parade.  As far as the stock market, it will go down the tubes, at least initially.   As far as U.S. borrowing power, it will be diminished to some extent; how much is up to conjecture.  Why we citizens have allowed things to go this way, I will never know. 

Q. What I don’t understand is, Obama championed this “Super Committee” idea and now he is out of the country and allowed it to fail without trying to exert his influence to make it work.  Why?  (Jack ~ Casper, WY)
A. He knew from the outset that it would fail; that’s why the committee was stacked up the way it was.  He wanted it to fail so that he could run against Congress in the election.  We all know that, outside of getting rid of Bin Laden, he has done absolutely nothing positive for this country in three years; he has absolutely no successes to claim.  Oh, I forgot; he DID win the Nobel Prize.   

TODAY’S QUOTE:
“And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.” ~ Barack Obama

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