Maksutov wrote:Government is not supposed to produce a profit, Markk. Business and government are not the same thing. That's really, really, important. But also...
Government is suppose to be responsible, and when a goverment grows to the point that it spends more than it receives, then it creates a problem of simple math as I outlined in my previous post.
Let's see, you think that the numbers you're suggesting are meaningful? How would you develop meaningful numbers when you consider all of the different industries and professions and economic sectors that are represented? How crude can you get?
What numbers did I suggest?
There is oversight provided for from Congress to handle all of the Constitutional things you've mentioned. Of course that only happens if Congress acts responsibly, which means bipartisanly. That hasn't happened.
LOL..isn't that my point? There is oversight by the patients in the asylum I guess. So when the oversight fails and those writing the checks keep writing them with out money in the account to cover the checks...should we keep those with oversight over this in power?
The deficit is created as much by cutting taxes as by increasing spending. This is basic bookkeeping. You don't reduce your revenue by cutting taxes without consequences. And selectively shutting down parts of the government that your party considers less essential is bypassing the legislative process and ceding too much power to the executive. Again.
Well then you believe we should just keep raising taxes, I do not...and that is a philosophical difference.
But the government is something I value. Something that can respond to me if I'm willing to work with it. It's something that a lot of good Americans have died protecting. It has corruption and mismanagement and problems like any large organization. It needs cleaning up. And we have provisions for that.
No we don't...you just stated our oversight is failing. It does need cleaning up, and it starts by getting those that have caused or let the problem exist out of Washington.
Do you think Pelosi and McConnell are the answer?
I don't admire antigovernment conservatives. Most of them are, frankly, hypocrites. And blathering on about some libertarian society that's about as real as Lemuria. Please.
Either do I...I like liberals and conservatives that want a responsible goverment. You admit that it needs cleaning up right?
It funny that in one breath you want compassionate conservatives...and yet a post rarely by you, to me, or others that disagrees with you goes by without a hateful remark. Why do you feel it necessary to call folks that disagree with you names, does it make you feel like your argument means more? In the last few days I have been called a lot of things, do you think that makes your position stronger, or is that just your nature.
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