Cutting Spending

This is a serious question that needs to be answered. Why are farm subsidies continued and not on the GOP table for cuts?

The GOP doesn't have farm subsidies on the cutting board because their base doesn't support cutting farm subsidies.

Your turn...Why didn't the Democrats, whose base supports cutting farm subsidies, cut them when they had a super majority in Congress and the Presidency?

That is a damn good question. HOWEVER, owing to the fact that the Democratic party is so screwed up that they couldn't even pass a worthy Healthcare Reform Bill with a SUPER majority, I am amazed they managed to get ANYTHING accomplished. That being said, since the new, new GOP is supposedly so fiscally conservative now and so anti-socialistic, shouldn't they be pushing to end the socialistic program of our Federal Government propping up farmers and agri-glomerates with tax payer dollars? It really doesn't seem fiscally conservative to me?

Did they have the super majority in the Senate, at the time of the healthcare bill? I thought they had already lost their super majority with the death of Ted Kennedy and a republican taking his slot?
 
The GOP doesn't have farm subsidies on the cutting board because their base doesn't support cutting farm subsidies.

Your turn...Why didn't the Democrats, whose base supports cutting farm subsidies, cut them when they had a super majority in Congress and the Presidency?

That is a damn good question. HOWEVER, owing to the fact that the Democratic party is so screwed up that they couldn't even pass a worthy Healthcare Reform Bill with a SUPER majority, I am amazed they managed to get ANYTHING accomplished. That being said, since the new, new GOP is supposedly so fiscally conservative now and so anti-socialistic, shouldn't they be pushing to end the socialistic program of our Federal Government propping up farmers and agri-glomerates with tax payer dollars? It really doesn't seem fiscally conservative to me?

Did they have the super majority in the Senate, at the time of the healthcare bill? I thought they had already lost their super majority with the death of Ted Kennedy and a republican taking his slot?

You are correct in that by the time the watered down, back room deal laden, not worth the paper it is written on, healthcare reform legislation FINALLY came up for a vote, they had lost their super majority. Had not the Demcorats NOT bickered and pissed and moaned about it for MONTHS, this never would have been the case.
 
Why is it so many of you pretend that cutting spending is not an option for dealing with deficits and debt? Especially, when, in reality, it's the easiest way.
"Glenn Beck has been dropped by New York radio station WOR due to poor rating$http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/glenn-beck-dropped-from-n_n_804554.html, the New York Daily News reports. Beck's radio show is due to go off the air on Jan. 17, and he is being replaced by Mike Gallagher, another nationally syndicated conservative talk show host.

Although Beck's radio show is the third-biggest in the country, WOR program director Scott Wakefield told the Daily News, "Somewhat to our surprise, the show wasn't getting what we wanted."

Yeah......that's what it was......

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.....Ratings.

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Why is it so many of you pretend that cutting spending is not an option for dealing with deficits and debt?
Yeah....it'll be a 1%ers' Paradise, huh???

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To your OP, the examples you give regarding the regulators is a little off the mark. Regulatory bodies were often told to lighten up on regulation and some had resources denied when they didn't comply. If a regulator has been told to ease up, it's not the regulator's fault when things go awry. It's the fault of the politician who gave him the instructions.

As to the theme of your OP, the easiest way to cut the deficit is to cut spending. But if you are going to cut spending deeply, you have to cut defense, SS and Medicare since they are 75% of the budget.
 
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To your OP, the examples you give regarding the regulators is a little off the mark. Regulatory bodies were often told to lighten up on regulation and some had resources denied when they didn't comply. If a regulator has been told to ease up, it's not the regulator's fault when things go awry. It's the fault of the politician who gave him the instructions.

As to the theme of your OP, the easiest way to cut the deficit is to cut spending. But if you are going to cut spending deeply, you have to cut defense, SS and Medicare since they are 75% of the budget.

Based on the leaked information on the cuts that the GOP is supposed to lay out today, SS, MediCare, farm subsidies and defense spending are not even mentioned. Why is that?
 
Cut all discretionary spending, faith based giving when some religious intitutions are given funds and others are overlooked. Funds to the arts, School lunch programs where parents can step up to the plate and pack their own children's lunches as they did once before.
 
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To your OP, the examples you give regarding the regulators is a little off the mark. Regulatory bodies were often told to lighten up on regulation and some had resources denied when they didn't comply. If a regulator has been told to ease up, it's not the regulator's fault when things go awry. It's the fault of the politician who gave him the instructions.

As to the theme of your OP, the easiest way to cut the deficit is to cut spending. But if you are going to cut spending deeply, you have to cut defense, SS and Medicare since they are 75% of the budget.

Based on the leaked information on the cuts that the GOP is supposed to lay out today, SS, MediCare, farm subsidies and defense spending are not even mentioned. Why is that?

If true, it is because the Republicans don't have the political courage to tell the nation what needs to be said. (And farmers vote Republican.). It is much easier to spin the fantasy that people don't need to sacrifice, and instead all we have to do is focus on "waste" and "fraud" and evil government workers.

In fairness to the GOP, the American public is not ready for an adult conversation yet, so they are just blowing with the political wind. But this issue will be resolved either through political courage or a crisis, and no party is demonstrating much courage at the moment.
 
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Why is it so many of you pretend that cutting spending is not an option for dealing with deficits and debt? Especially, when, in reality, it's the easiest way.
"Glenn Beck has been dropped by New York radio station WOR due to poor rating$http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/glenn-beck-dropped-from-n_n_804554.html, the New York Daily News reports. Beck's radio show is due to go off the air on Jan. 17, and he is being replaced by Mike Gallagher, another nationally syndicated conservative talk show host.

Although Beck's radio show is the third-biggest in the country, WOR program director Scott Wakefield told the Daily News, "Somewhat to our surprise, the show wasn't getting what we wanted."

Yeah......that's what it was......



.....Ratings.

:eusa_whistle:


And this has to do with spending cuts because...?
 
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Cut all discretionary spending, faith based giving when some religious intitutions are given funds and others are overlooked. Funds to the arts, School lunch programs where parents can step up to the plate and pack their own children's lunches as they did once before.

It's not the discretionary spending that's the problem. It's the so called "mandatory" spending. Which is by no means mandatory.
 
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To your OP, the examples you give regarding the regulators is a little off the mark. Regulatory bodies were often told to lighten up on regulation and some had resources denied when they didn't comply. If a regulator has been told to ease up, it's not the regulator's fault when things go awry. It's the fault of the politician who gave him the instructions.

As to the theme of your OP, the easiest way to cut the deficit is to cut spending. But if you are going to cut spending deeply, you have to cut defense, SS and Medicare since they are 75% of the budget.

And that's a problem because...?
 
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To your OP, the examples you give regarding the regulators is a little off the mark. Regulatory bodies were often told to lighten up on regulation and some had resources denied when they didn't comply. If a regulator has been told to ease up, it's not the regulator's fault when things go awry. It's the fault of the politician who gave him the instructions.

As to the theme of your OP, the easiest way to cut the deficit is to cut spending. But if you are going to cut spending deeply, you have to cut defense, SS and Medicare since they are 75% of the budget.

And that's a problem because...?

It's not a problem to me.
 
Why is it so many of you pretend that cutting spending is not an option for dealing with deficits and debt? Especially, when, in reality, it's the easiest way.
"Glenn Beck has been dropped by New York radio station WOR due to poor rating$http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/glenn-beck-dropped-from-n_n_804554.html, the New York Daily News reports. Beck's radio show is due to go off the air on Jan. 17, and he is being replaced by Mike Gallagher, another nationally syndicated conservative talk show host.

Although Beck's radio show is the third-biggest in the country, WOR program director Scott Wakefield told the Daily News, "Somewhat to our surprise, the show wasn't getting what we wanted."

Yeah......that's what it was......



.....Ratings.

:eusa_whistle:


And this has to do with spending cuts because...?


They have four responses... Palin, Beck, Rush and Fox Noise. It's what they do.
 
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