Yes, folks, I'm well aware that below this post is one titled "(CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)" which basically celebrates John Boehner's "response" to President Obama's lying hyperbole presented to a national/worldwide television audience last night.
Praise for Boehner's rhetorical firmness last night aside, what I'm worried about today is that John Boehner and "his people" just don't understand that the time for lying to the American People and kicking the can down the road once again is over.
While being interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday two days ago, Boehner noted, "We have got a budget deficit of $1.5 trillion. We're borrowing 42 cents on every dollar we spend, we have $14.5 trillion national debt. It is time to get serious about stopping the spending here in Washington, D.C."
My question: Was the Speaker being serious about stopping the spending?
I fear the answer is "no."
Will Boehner's deputy, Eric Cantor (R-VA-7), stick with Boehner come what may out of political loyalty while turning his back upon the loyalty he owes his constituents and the nation?
Unfortunately, I fear the answer is "yes."
And what of my own Congresswoman - Dr. Nan Hayworth (R-NY-19); she supported Boehner against the People on the Continuing Budget Resolution back in April - will she do so again now?
To this I have no answer - only the hope that Dr. Hayworth will remain firm in her convictions and abide by the promises of 2010 "Candidate" Hayworth.
Folks... it's not this promised $1.2 trillion promised "cut" that's the problem; it's that fact that except through Constitutional Amendment no two-year Congress can bind any single (let alone the next five) successor Congress(es) to any "deal" made.
Folks... these clowns are trying to sell us on a 10-year "plan" - a "Grand Bargain" - that they lose the authority to enforce come January 2013... let alone January 2015... January 2017... January 2019... January 2021... January 2023...
Folks... here are the questions to be raised - and I strongly suggest you contact your individual member of the House and each of your two U.S. Senators:
1) What was the federal deficit for fiscal year 2006 - the last year George W. Bush and a Republican Congress "ran" Washington.
2) What was the federal debt at the end of fiscal year 2006 - the last year George W. Bush and a Republican Congress "ran" Washington.
Then...
3) Ask the same questions with regard to 2007 (Bush + Pelosi/Reid)
4) Ditto 2008 (Bush + Pelosi/Reid)
5) Ditto 2009 (Obama + Pelosi/Reid)
6) Ditto 2010 (Obama + Pelosi/Reid)
7) Ditto 2011 (Obama + Boehner/Reid)
Then...
Ask your elected representatives what the projections predict for 2012... 2013... 2014... 2015... 2016... 2017... 2018... 2019... 2020... 2021... 2022... 2023... should the so-called "Boehner Plan" be enacted.
Folks... the answer - if you can get a straight one - will tell you all you need to know about whether "cuts" are being agreed to.
(Oh... and then of course if one were to dig deeper no doubt one would find wildly optimistic future revenue projections and phony budget gimmicks galore... but that's for another post.)
Folks... the Dempublicans and Republicrats currently borrow $4 billion a day...
Folks... that's borrowing... that's not total federal spending... that's simply borrowing...
Again, folks... scroll up... re-read Boehner's comment... Dempublicans and Republicrats currently borrow 42 cents of every dollar squandered... and this borrowing isn't going on their tabs - it's going on ours... on our children's... on our grandchildren's...
Here's the question to ask Boehner... and Cantor... and Dr. Nan Hayworth... and President Obama... and each and every member of the House and Senate... and each and every "journalist" in the nation: If Boehner's Plan is passed, what does that mean for deficits and debt over the next 10 years - the supposedly length of this "deal?"
What will be the deficit for 2012 if Boehner's "deal" is agreed to?
How'bout 2013... 2014... 2015... 2016... 2017... 2018... 2019... 2020... 2021... 2022... 2023...?
If Boehner's "deal" is agreed to, what's the National Debt expected to grow to by the end of 2012... 2013... 2014... 2015... 2016... 2016... 2017... 2018... 2019... 2020... 2021... 2022... 2023...?
Folks... notice... the politicians are volunteering this info - not the Boehner Gang... not the Obama Gang... not the Reid Gang... and not the mainstream media.
Folks... the federal government - not to mention Think Tanks, universities, Hedge Funds, Banks, and Investment Companies - have tens of thousands of number crunchers on their payrolls producing exactly the sort of data I'm asking for day in and day out. And yet...
(*SHRUG*)
Funny, isn't it, that we have a 24-hour news cycle and yet not only are we not being bombarded with all sorts of facts and figures regarding the sort of projections I'm begging you all to take an interest in, but to the contrary, the media seems transfixed upon some imaginary specter of "default" even though it's been factually demonstrated again and again that the U.S. Government has plenty of revenues to meet each and every legal commitment upon it?
Folks... please... even if you don't believe it's "worth it" to make a call or send an email on your own behalf... think of the nation's children... think of the generations to come.
Folks... we can not allow the Dempublicans and Republicrats to steer the Ship of State onto the rocks.
And, folks... make no mistake... that's what these bastards are prepared to do.
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