Akron, OH – 27 July 2011
“Republican politicians are pretending to act, but they’re actually playacting,” says Jim Babka, President of DownsizeDC.org, Inc. “House Republicans could balance the budget right now, simply by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. They don’t need the cooperation of the President or Senate to accomplish this. They don’t even need to take a vote. They can simply ‘do nothing.’ Just leave the debt ceiling where it is.”
Babka described the pretense this way: “The GOP, and numerous conservative groups, would have their supporters believe that the House Republicans are powerless. That in order to…
- stop deficit spending, they must first do years more of it.
- stop expanding the national debt, they must first increase it by 17%.
- make Congress live within its means, they must first execute the cumbersome process of ratifying a dangerous amendment to the Constitution that won’t take effect for many years.”
“The truth,” charged Babka, “is that the Republican leadership is trying to hustle the GOP’s supporters. The Republican leadership prefers business as usual, so they can continue to borrow and spend to buy votes, reward friends, and punish enemies.”
“In reality,” says Babka, whose organization has 31,000 members, “Cap the debt equals a balanced budget, NOW. And that would also Downsize DC,” Babka concluded with a smile.
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The following video from Standard & Poor’s explains their position for downgrading the United States’ credit rating within the next 90 days.
The following video is posted by Mr. Garvin and it is the only video that he has posted. As I write this, the video has 39,513 views since it was published on July 10th. Mr. Garvin captures the sentiment of the everyday man in America except for one thing: it is the sentiment of the everyday man from 60 years ago.
President Obama spoke at the National Council of La Raza’s annual conference on July 25, 2011. It appears that his base from the 2008 elections is abandoning him and he is branching out. Since his first re-election campaign video is in Spanish (below), we see where he will be focusing his voting strategy through 2012.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has announced that Republicans must sacrifice to avoid default by raising the debt ceiling. I have several issues with Mr. Boehner’s statement.
Monsanto has cornered the market for genetically modified organism (GMO) seeds. In addition, they also conveniently offer weed killer that will not harm their seeds. Generous application of herbicide eliminates the need to till the soil prior to planting. What a sweet deal for Monsanto and the farmers who pay and work less to harvest their crops. And it is environmentally friendly by reducing the carbon footprint of the farming industry. What could go wrong?
The debt ceiling “crisis” is on center stage today. I received an email again today with the following quote from then Sen. Obama in 2006:
John Boehner will present a plan to raise the debt ceiling by Sunday (July 24th) evening. This deadline is to prevent a “roil” when the Asian stock markets open tomorrow night. Keep in mind that this will only be a plan, not legislation, which can only lead to another continuing resolution to raise the debt ceiling. The deadline to draft legislation was missed last week as Timothy Geithner warned us.
