All rights but NO RESPONSIBILITY.

Woe the USA!!!

A day late and a few trillion dollars short. They had their chance to make and pass just as socialist and pro-death a budget as they wanted.

We have witnessed the failure of their theory that spending will bring growth. They don’t want to look at evidence when it messes up their pretty theory. Besides, spending cuts would mean fewer opportunities for corruption. Corruption is what makes the Democratic government machine run.

I see the usual baby-killers have their usual priorities.

They are missing some important points. The OUTUS US OB/GYN numbers are pretty small, and a substantial amount of the time, none of the doctors assigned abroad perform abortions. And good luck getting them to be ordered to do so.

Jeanne Shaheen – are you a Natural Born Citizen of New Hampshire, or just a liberal infiltrator from Massachusetts?

It is delightful to see conservatives, here and at places like NRO, suddenly agreeing that cutting taxes now would be crazy, now that Democrats are proposing the idea.

@Mark,

Not all of us here are in favor of cutting taxes and removing stimuli. I for one am quite happy to see the Evil Stupid Party™ (identified by their Nasty mascot, Equus asinus) spending us into oblivion on their menagerie of supporters, rather than electing a bunch of establishment members of the Stupid Evil Party™ (identified by their Nasty mascot, Loxodonta africana) doing so on their menagerie of supporters, only at a slightly more leisurely pace.

And here is why I say that. School for the American electorate is on the verge of being called into session on the virtues of personal responsibility and the wages of the sin of attempting to make others bear the costs of one’s choices. The more intense the items in the lesson plan, the more indelibly will the lesson be learned and remembered.

We didn’t learn it from the American experience of the 1930s, as can be readily seen from the state of the economy and the public purse today. We were taught, deliberately and erroneously, that FDR’s programs brought the Great Depression to an end, with the result that we have arrived at our current situation. The lesson of the falsehood of Keynesian economics needs to be driven home with an intensity that deters forgetfulness. Members of the Evil Stupid Party™ are intent on doing just that.

Let the practical pedagogy in political economy begin! There is no better time to start than the present day.

Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer

Mark, the debt ceiling talks led by Vice President Biden have just broken down because, while participants say some serious spending cuts have been agreed to, Democrats on the panel are insisting on increasing taxes. The “payroll tax cuts” referred to in this Reuters report are combined with more “stimulus” spending, the sort of thing which has already failed. The action to extend the current income tax rates rather than raising them in a recession was wise. The sort of tax cut which would really lead to economic growth would be a drastic restructuring of the income tax rates at much lower levels combined with the cancellation of the maze of special deals which litter the code today. The payroll tax cut currently in place isn’t helping, is it? That’s because businesses are still facing uncertainty about the economy and the massive new regulations and taxes and fees which this administration has imposed.

Fuinseoig, We’re sending our President and all the Democrats to you folks in Ireland, because that’s where they belong; since they’ve been Dublin the national debt every year since his Irishness O’bama has been in office.