Bachmann Warns CPAC that America Faces 'decline' from Excessive Spending
From Minnpost
Sarcasm punch. I really dislike Michelle Bachmann. I mean, dislike her enough where I am inclined to leave this state to avoid being associated with her. Just to cover the basics, she made the following remarks
- We face decline due to our budget woes (duh)
- Obama has the "intention to fail" and is "choosing decline"
- "What I produce belongs to me, not the King, not the government"
I'm not sure where to begin with this. The most obvious point in my mind is that Bachmann is a hypocrite. For eight Bush-kissing years, Bachmann didn't have much to say about the deficit or national debt. Here's my biggest problem with Republicans of late. They talk a big game about cutting taxes and spending. So they they cut taxes, but continue to spend. Then we end up in the hole that we're in now. I'm not that big of a Clinton lover (Bill that is), but he understood something back then that we all don't understand now... how to get a surplus (I'll give Congress a shout out too, since Constitutionally, it is their job after all... unless you live in MN).
Bachmann is a leader of the crazies. Pause...
cra-zies [krey-zees]
- noun
1. A mentally deranged, demented person.
2. People so far caught up in their beliefs that they cannot participate in debate and compromise: The crazies voted for Michelle Bachmann.
Unpause... I am fine with her believing that we should be allowed to keep the fruits of our labor. In a way, America was built on that principle if you want to be loose with history. However, as most people get when we would like to win an argument, we get selective memory. Bachmann forgets that America has and is slowly amending away that idea of you keep what you earn by necessity. The hard truth is that if we want roads, schools, trains, food, security, unemployment benefits, police, snowplows, mail, a military, and whole host of other things, we need to make sacrifices. Like I said, we get selective with our history. We were built on the idea of keeping our what we've earned... If we had stuck to our guns on that issue... well, I'll let Washington tell it how it is:
Washington to Continental Congress: Look, I understand that we were all pissed off about having to pay a bit extra for tea and stamps. Like most of you, I rushed down to the post office with a shit ton of mail the day before that law went into effect. However, and I must be blunt, if you guys don't send some supplies... and well, soldiers, to join the army, we're fucked.
Thanks George. Here's the deal, you can be anti tax and spend, but I suggest you walk the talk and stop using things the government paid for. Don't mark that homebuyer credit. Stop calling the police when someone robs your house. Don't use the roads. You sure as heck better not use a bridge. I'm sure that the free market will figure those things out for you in no time.
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