On the floor of the Senate, Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky just defended the position he’s taken that has delayed an extension of jobless benefits for the nation’s unemployed and has forced the furlough of about 2,000 federal workers.
Saying that he has blocked votes on the legislation to underscore his opposition to the ongoing growth in federal debt, Bunning read a letter from “Robert in Louisville,” who told the senator that even though he hasn’t been working regularly in the past two years he supports what Bunning is doing.
Guess what, Democrats? There isn’t an infinite amount of money – not if we fired up the printing presses full time and borrowed every red cent from the Chinese. Life isn’t a fairy tale with pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – its about trade-offs and priorities.
Bunning, after all, is just holding you to your own words – you said you wanted to pay as you go. Well, here’s your chance. None of us want the unemployed to go without benefits, but as there isn’t a magic money tree, we have to decide what do we want more:
Unemployment benefits, or funding for PBS?
Unemployment benefits, or Bureau of Land Management?
Unemployment benefits, or Department of Energy, Environmental Management?
Unemployment benefits, or Department of Labor, Training and Employment Service?
Unemployment benefits, or Corporation for National and Community Service?
Remember, you can’t have everything. Its just not possible. Time to grow up and be big boys and girls and realize that some hard choices need to be made.
Of course, you won’t. You’ll instead go on a whine about how mean we Republicans are. Trouble for you is that the majority isn’t buying that nonsense, any more. We know the scam – if we don’t immediately give you want you want, people will die. We know its all BS – you just don’t want to set priorities. Well, we’ll set them for you – starting on January 3rd, 2011.
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