I am constantly amazed that we allow the people we pay to work for us to be so blatantly against doing our work. The recount of the Minnesota Governor’s race is now being used to stir up fear on both sides. “Volunteer now to help us keep the Republicans, from slowing down the recount and jamming their agenda through before Dayton can take office”. “We are not going to get rolled again”. This is so blatantly partisan and so against doing the work of the people. Why are people content with this. We deserve better.
The leaders of the panel convened by the President to make recommendations on debt and the deficit released preliminary suggestions. Democrats and Republicans are decrying the suggestions. I haven’t read about the suggestions very much and am just going by what I saw on CNN today. Both parties seem to be saying that this “goes to far”. The suggestions don’t balance the budget for like 27 years. Goes to far? What kind of alternate universe do politicians live in where our national debt is 60% of the entire economic output of this country and increasing that debt for the next 27 years goes to far in cutting? Republicans are going to hate it because, gasp, we are spending way more than we take in so we would look for more revenue at the same time as cutting spending in almost every area. Democrats hate it because, gasp, we would cut what we spend in order to stop spending way more than we have. This ideological Koolaide that politicians seem to have ingested seems to make them oblivious to reality and unwilling to suggest that sacrifice might just be necessary to get us out of this gaping hole of sucking debt that will inhale us all. But I guess when you blindly vote for the same set of people who have been taking us down this road for years, the idea that they would fix it seems kind of absurd.
