re: #216 Dark_Falcon

I don’t agree with that statement at all. We bottomed out for a time, but we still don’t recover due to continued uncertainties. The Republican party is trying to remove those uncertainties by getting spending under control, and making regulations clearer and less onerous.

What’s the GOP gonna do to “get spending under control?” The military budget and tax increases are off the table. Cutting NEA and similar funding won’t make much of a dent. So what you’re left with are SS and Medicare. And cuts in those programs won’t be enough unless you’re willing to gut them long term, and begin with massive cuts immediately. Which the GOP won’t do, since they’d like to win more elections.

Prediction: Pres. Perry won’t produce any more of a balanced budget than we have now. But the TP will forgive him because they’ll be back in power, and because Perry’s a real American. This is largely culture war shit, not a national debate over economics, which few partisans on either side really understand anyway. See Breitbart for an illustration.