Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Price of Political Bickering
As many of us are aware, somewhere in the bowles of Washington, a "Super committee" comprised of members from both parties and both chambers of Congress are struggling to find an additional $1 trillion dollars-plus in spending cuts by the fast approaching November 23 deadline. If this committee fails to find these cuts on their own, automatic cuts that were instituted as part of the budget deal struck this summer will be instituted, with half of the cuts coming from the Department of Defense.
In the shadow of these cuts, $600 billion dollars in tax breaks, Medicare coverage, and unemployment bennies are scheduled to go the way of the dodo on January 1, 2012. Happy New Year Senior Citizens, Happy New Year Unemployed Americans, and Happy New Year American Workers! Your government can't get it together enough to do what they promised you they would do. Are any of us really shocked by this? I'm betting a majority of you will say "no". Everyone except the politicians will be touched by this inaction, unless of course the politicians are getting Medicare or unemployment. Perhaps it is time we give them a taste of the latter.
As many of us are aware, somewhere in the bowles of Washington, a "Super committee" comprised of members from both parties and both chambers of Congress are struggling to find an additional $1 trillion dollars-plus in spending cuts by the fast approaching November 23 deadline. If this committee fails to find these cuts on their own, automatic cuts that were instituted as part of the budget deal struck this summer will be instituted, with half of the cuts coming from the Department of Defense.
In the shadow of these cuts, $600 billion dollars in tax breaks, Medicare coverage, and unemployment bennies are scheduled to go the way of the dodo on January 1, 2012. Happy New Year Senior Citizens, Happy New Year Unemployed Americans, and Happy New Year American Workers! Your government can't get it together enough to do what they promised you they would do. Are any of us really shocked by this? I'm betting a majority of you will say "no". Everyone except the politicians will be touched by this inaction, unless of course the politicians are getting Medicare or unemployment. Perhaps it is time we give them a taste of the latter.
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