Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Finally the government shutdown and debt ceiling problem is over--for about three months.  We have managed to kick the can down the road again.   Of course none of this charade should have happened in the first place.  The GOP got nothing for their effort to stop Obamacare except angering most of the nation and the world financial markets.  The bill passed tonight could and should have been passed 2 weeks ago.  It was a pain that we should not have had to go through.  I blame the Tea Party which accomplished nothing and Boehner who could have called for a vote much earlier instead of trying to appease the Tea Party people.

Having lost on Obamacare the conservatives are trying to blame the deficit on Obama.  Steve King of Iowa said that if conservative policies would have been put in five years ago we would not have this deficit now.  Yes, we would all have been bankrupt by now instead.  Did they forget conservative policies were in place before Obama took over.  They had the Bush tax cut.  There was actually a surplus when Bush took over.  The banks failed during his term.  As I have said in the past, I don't blame the severe recession on Bush because the main culprits were Wall Street and the banks.  But Bush started the bailout policy that Obama took over.  So how is it that somehow conservative policies would have been better five years ago.  It just defy logic.

As I said before, Obamacare would not cause any disaster.  Afterall, Romneycare did not kill Massachusetts and socialize medicine have not kill France, Britain, Canada etc.  The deficit is not an immediate problem but I understand that we should tackle it, if for no reason than to give confidence to the conservatives that the world is not falling.  While the shutdown was going on, the GOP tried to pass various bills to fund certain things they like.  Let's do the reverse.  How about go item by item and vote to cut things that the majority want to get rid of.  This way every politician will have to vote up or down on each item.  If both the House and Senate vote against certain item or decrease its funding and the president does not veto, that item is out.  No item can stand behind something else, so no bridge in Alaska can be tied to funding for troops for example.  So all pork will be out.  So let see what do we actually want to get rid of instead of saying we need to trim 10 trillion.  Also for every 2 dollars cut, add 1 dollar of tax until the deficit is resolved.  This is an honest way to cut the deficit but I am not holding my breath that either side would accept this method.