Obama Budget Is Dismissed by G.O.P. and Attacked by Left

[jmowreader]

30. Looks like the GOP is at it again

If you ask any of those numbskulls on the extreme right they'll tell you the same thing: if we eliminate Obamacare and cut taxes the budget will come into balance in 10 years.

There are a few problems with that, key among them being the simple fact that He Who Shall Not Be Named (you know, the guy who spends his time now painting pictures of his feet) started his administration with a balanced budget. Because Republicans can't deal with a balanced budget, the goal should be to get the budget to around $100 billion deficit - a nice small deficit we can easily deal with, that at the same time keeps repukes from going into spend the surplus frenzy.

Now to the point here: there is absolutely no way in hell we are going to get where they want to go by cutting $50 million programs. The deficit is $900 billion.

Think like this:

Revenues. Balance. Spending

The goal is to get the three to come together, right? It's a lot easier to do if you move both at once...but the thing that will make the one on the right move fastest is the defense cuts Republicans refuse, and the only thing the republicans want to do to revenues is reduce them further.

So we have a Democratic party that tries to come up with a bunch of half measures that maybe the republican party will accept, and a republican party that won't accept less than everything it wants. Three guesses as to why we're fucked.