From The Hill:
…A spokesman for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday morning said spending cuts, not social policy provisions, are the “largest issue” preventing an agreement to keep the government open.
“While nothing will be decided until everything is decided, the largest issue is still spending cuts,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in an email. “The American people want to cut spending to help the private sector create jobs — and the Democrats that run Washington don’t.”…
Democrats are already in war mode on this – using the tired, worn out play book of the left that any spending cut is an attack upon the poor and helpless. We might as well get in to war mode, too – start attacking all the monumentally stupid spending the Democrats want to keep. Let’s have it out – a nice, contentious and long-term battle, and then let the people ultimately decide between the sides. This is a fight I’m sure we will win.
Think about this – we’re going to spend more than a trillion dollars more in 2012 than we spent in 2008. On what? I mean, seriously, its not like we weren’t spending bags of money in 2008 – what additional, vital government tasks require us to spend more than a trillion dollars more than we spent in 2008? Anyone got an answer for that? Can anyone say what government is doing now which (a) wasn’t done in 2008 and (b) is vital to the lives, safety and liberty of the American people?
Mountains of flapdoodle have been piled on to government…and the Democrats are merely trying to defend this, because that is how they buy votes and pay off campaign donors. It is time for this to come to an and – and it won’t come to an end unless we fight it out. Shut it down. Don’t give an inch – until Democrats agree to stop bankrupting America, make no deals.
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