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| Eric Cantor |
With no thanks to those Republicans who sold their sold to the devil, without the help of
Eric Cantor, Darrell Issa, and a few others, there were enough votes to pass the bill. One can only guess why the others want us to fall off the cliff. Cantor fancies himself as powerful and it is suspected he wants Boehner's job or his sights may even be politically higher. He is arrogant and unfeeling about middle class as is Daniel Issa, purported to be worth 450 billion dollars. I suppose it is small wonder he didn't want his taxes to go up. I guess it is hard to live on that kind of money?
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| Darrell Issa |
Darrell Issa should be remembered for having a panel on contraceptives for women without a woman being on the panel. He is someone who, in my opinion, does not represent America or what is good for our country. Why so many people fear him is not clear to me as I think he has proven his ignorance of his country's needs.Having a lot of money may get you there with some outside power but it takes much more governance to be a good House Representative than his power-hungry self has shown while serving to date.
There are many more very important votes to be cast before our economy if without threat from these Representatives who answer only to their ideology and their allegiance to those powers out of government to whom they pledge.
Well, at least this is one catastrophe that has been averted for the moment. We can only watch and hope for some sense to hit those elected who march to a drummer outside the Congress.
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There is little to be thankful for with this new budget deal. It may get us past the immediate crisis, but does nothing to handle the long term debt crisis. As Robert Bixby of the fiscal watchdog group The Concord Coalition puts it, the deal "requires no hard choices and solves no difficult problems."
For all the fanfare over higher tax rates, the projected new revenue that will be raised over the next ten years will not even cover the amount of new debt the country will take on this year. What about spending cuts? Well, the only thing decided on is that the rate of increase will be slowed, and the programs that will not grow as fast as originally projected will be decided later. As Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition puts it, this deal "requires no hard choices and solves no difficult problems."
In short, this budget deal once again kicks the can down the road once again, ignoring the fact that we are running out of road. The youth of the nation will pay dearly for our profligate ways.
One of the few people who voted responsibly on this issue was Senator Mike Lee, who explains his vote in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yE-07Sx2Ug
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