{"id":21137,"date":"2010-11-10T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21137"},"modified":"2010-11-10T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:34:08","slug":"punishing-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21137","title":{"rendered":"Punishing Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m no class warrior and I like spending cuts just like everyone else. But I don’t like broken promises. This deficit panel that was commissioned by the president to balance the budget was a joke anyway – it was someone he could blame for cutting the stuff that the government promised to people without getting any of the shit splattered on himself. Look at the stuff they’ve recommended cutting, which Associated Press<\/a> calls a “daring assault” on the deficit;<\/p>\n

…reducing annual cost-of-living increases for Social Security, gradually raising the retirement age to 69 and taking aim at popular tax breaks such as the mortgage interest deduction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…their plan would also curb the growth of Medicare<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIncreasing the gas tax by 15 cents a gallon to fund transportation programs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They also mention freezing government employees pay for three years while reducing the federal work force by 10% and doing away with earmarks which probably makes sense. <\/p>\n

The price of gas isn’t high enough? Out here, outside the Beltway people can hardly afford to get to work as it is. If they have work. Reducing the cost of living allowances for Social Security recipients won’t hurt folks on a fixed income while prices of food and, then gasoline? Well, I guess fewer will get their SS benefit since more will be dead before the age they can retire.<\/p>\n

They’ve cut Medicare to pay for their healthcare plan, the rates keep going up and retirees are getting less in their paychecks.<\/p>\n

I don’t see any recommendations to cut congressional staff or congressional pensions, or congressional pay. And oh, yeah, they’re proposing to eliminate the tax credit for your employers’ health plan…I wonder why. Single payer, maybe? You’ll lose your child tax credit and the tax credit for your mortgage – ya know the ones you count on every year when you’re doing your taxes.<\/p>\n

Nothing about cutting the deadwood out of SSI payments – like to a guy I know who gets SSI because he was caught smoking pot in his employer’s parking lot and got his monkey-ass fired. Now he’s unemployable because he’s a drug addict…for smoking weed.<\/p>\n

Why is there still a Commerce Department when everything they do is already done in every other agency in Federal Government. <\/p>\n

Why is there still an Education Department which is nothing more than a clearing house for grants to the States? Can’t the states tax their own citizens to provide the “condom on a banana” education without having to come begging to the behemoth every year? <\/p>\n

What does the EPA do these days other than provide an employment opportunity for lawyers?<\/p>\n

I thought this panel was going to find a way to reduce government and all they did was recommend that government break it’s promises to the people who fund the beast. <\/p>\n

Of course this list of “spending cuts” is just going to be used for the media to write endless articles that begin “See? You don’t really want to cut spending!” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m no class warrior and I like spending cuts just like everyone else. But I don’t … Punishing Americans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}