FY 2012 Budget: Jesus Wept
President Obama proposed his 2012 budget today. The New York Times predictably gushes in a so-called “news” story about the proposal’s “cut and invest” strategy.
Meanwhile, House Republicans bravely proposed cutting nearly $100 billion out of the remaining budget for fiscal year 2011.
Oddly enough, the only person who cuts to the nub of the issue is Nobel Laureate in Economics and Official Liberal Apologist Paul Krugman. Mr. Krugman states, along with a bunch of patently erroneous folderol, as follows:
The key point to understand is that while many voters say that they want lower spending, press the issue a bit further and it turns out that they only want to cut spending on other people.
And there’s the rub. No politician of either party is ready to seriously attack America’s spending addiction because no one wants to tell the voters no.
No, you can’t retire at 50 and live tax subsidized for the next 35 years on the backs of productive citizens. No, you can’t get free health care for everything that ails you, no matter how inconsequential. No, you can’t live tax free and expect to have decent services. No, spending more on a government program does not necessarily guarantee better results (see, e.g., education). No, you can’t live off unemployment for more than two years without taking any job that comes your way, no matter how “beneath you” you consider it. No, welfare is not a responsibility free lifestyle, so get to work. No, low tax rates aren’t the problem; high spending is.
If our politicians — all of them, and from both sides of the aisle — are not willing to tackle Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security reform, then they should not be reelected. It is undeniable that these three programs taken alone are on track to bankrupt America.
It’s time to stop treating Americans like petulant, spoiled, crybaby children.
It’s time to say no.
Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.
’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.
The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.
His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.
He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.
Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.
‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.