Fiscal Conservatism in Washington.

[The_Gipper]

This must be hard for D.C. Republicans. The Democrats always come up with some new bill that will be for less fortunate people and be like well Jim lost his the tire on his car, please tell me that you (Republicans) do care about Jims tire. Like we are the bad guy.

We are probally the ones that care most. All this does is create a depence on goverment. When your dependent on Goverment you are also dependent on the party that gives people on this money :)

Now lets take a look at the UAW bailout. If I was dumb this would look like to me the Dems paying off the UAW for them getting them MI and OH or paying off that parties interest group. I know this false. What would help Jim better. Continuing to pay off a rediculous manged company just because its a American company with the Union asking for rediclous amounts of money for pesnsions and health care?

Or should the auto companys re-negotaite their contracts, re think there products and actually then be able to keep Jim and hire Jims neghibor?


When we see the Fedral Goverment spend billions of dollars. Try not to think about it numbers. Do you know just how much just a million dollars is for one family? A ton of money. Yet you see the goverment pass billion after billion of dollar bills.

So I begin think how likely is it we could actually get a balanced budget amendment. The states have to balance their budget, hell even the EU has to balance there budgets.

Also shouldn't be a congressman or senator be a job you do for free? After all you love your country. Why do do they need a salary?

I know none of this will ever happen. I know why. Unless we end up like Rome or the U.S.S.R. Should be a good thought.

[The_Gipper]

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[JeffS]

While I will never likely be an advocate of a legal compulsion for a balanced budget (deficits are really good tools for managing dollar value), I do very much agree that fiscal responsibility needs to be pervasive in the Republican Party's platform. I currently see it as a talking the talk but I'm sure you might have an idea about how I feel about the party's 'walking' part...

Such as the Democrats have taken to semantic tomfoolery in recent years, I suggest that we have a rollback of the social program growth that has occurred of the last few decades. I imagine the savings just from that would be an exponential shrink in government size. It will be o.k to do this so long as we don't actually say we are cutting social programs...just rolling them back...

Silliness aside, if we are to really be a party of relevance, it is to focus on the fiscal aspect of the Party's stances. This is much more key than any other aspect of the GOP's message and more over, its actions.  

[the_gipper]

I get your point. Any Politican that comes out and says, I want to cut medicare, social security etc will lose. I get your point on inflation, deflation. I forgot to put this in there but the budget would have to be balanced unless there is a war or a crisis. Lnowing a politican we would have a war or crisis every other day.