We should all be able to agree that both political parties are overspending. Even with the govt collecting more taxes than ever before, Congress is passing ever increasing appropriations bills, and the President is signing them. Rather than address this, everyone plays the blame game. Whats the solution here? Dems will say higher taxes. Republicans will say less spending. Perhaps the solution is to fire everyone in Congress and put in some people with a fresh perspective and less pandering to pork.

White House Predicts $482 Billion Deficit - NYTimes.com

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

aye...
Democrats - "tax and spend"
Republicans - "Borrow and spend"

Dems dont seem to have a problem with borrow and spend either.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

Politicians spend. Its how they appear to be doing something.

GOP would do itself a huge favor by making that the #1 Congressional Priority for the fall. And its very beneficial that so many old GOPs are checking out if they can work up the courage to do this.

I'm pretty sure all tax payer/voters are in agreement that spending is a problem.

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Hope is the opposite of audacity. It's passive, an excuse for inaction.

Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

“What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”

“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

“The other kills her own food.”

At this point both sides have no problem with all approaches to spending money we don't have. I feel terrible and in some ways rather embarrassed for the nightmare our kids are going to inherit.

Yep, I forsee another Gingrich style revolution at some point, followed by the GOP getting control of congress again, reforming a few things, then becoming corrupt again. We need term limits.

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they all suck, period end of story.

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


Mortgage Backed Security survivor

Early on, for about 10 minutes, I tried to convince myself that GWB was going along with all this spending bullshit in an effort to bankrupt the Fed. Then we could dismantle it and all the bullshit programs within and sell it for scrap.

No such luck.

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"Compassionate Conservatism"?!?! That is a stupid phrase. Conservatism is inherently compassionate. It is liberalism that is cruel for the sake of maintaining a constituency.

I agree on all of the above.

But true term limits have been found unconstitutional, since they can deny people having the representative of their choice. The way to get incumbants out of office is the same way they keep Libertarians and other 3rd parties out of office - ballot access restrictions. The state-level law (or better, constitutional amendment, since a law will just be overridden by self-interested incumbant politicians) should read something like "No candidate for office having appeared on two previous general election ballots for a given office or seat and having served more than one full term in that office or seat since the second such preceding ballot, cannot appear on the general election ballot for that same office or seat. Write-in candidacies for such ballot-excluded candidates are permitted as allowed by law." This essentially limits any politician to 2 consecutive terms, with the option of coming back after a 1-term hiatus. If they have enough backing that they can win a 3rd term purely on write-in votes, then the people have truly spoken (rather than just followed along like sheep as they do now) and the incumbant can continue in office and even appear on the next two ballots, so nobody is barred from holding any office and thus there are no constitutional issues. (And the wording is such that there are no workarounds like resigning after serving 1 3/4 terms or some such.)

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Today's forecast: Government corruption.

Tomorrow's forecast: 100% chance of more 'politics as usual'

Maybe it's finally time to vote Libertarian

Im thinking in terms of a constitutional amendment that term limts congress.

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he's been trying to get them motivated for months. they require but lack courage at this point. I think they over estimate the value of pork. or perhaps the pork nas gotten a little more strong arm in nature ?

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Hope is the opposite of audacity. It's passive, an excuse for inaction.

Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

“What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”

“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

“The other kills her own food.”