Posted by Ralph Crossen on September 9, 2011 at 3:33am
Obama's speach was 80 percent as expected but with a new twist. He advocated spending on roads, bridges, teachers, firefighters and police which translates to unions. Throw some money at it and it will get better for a while. The problem is that it won't last. After the money is spent, the municipalities will be faced with either continuing these jobs or laying off all these new employees. The government has no way to support the unions like this without it becoming an unfunded mandate on the cities and towns. The new twist though involves how he will pay for it. True to form he doesn't want to inflame any group so he doesn't do it. Instead he says that his new deficit reduction group will figure it out. If you remember, this group of 12 is tasked with finding cuts and if they can't, ( 6 Dems and 6 Reps on the committee) the cuts will come out of defense and medicaid equally. So what do you think will happen? It looks like his plan is, by doing this, to gut defense and medicaid without ever being blamed for it. This, gutting defense, I believe has been his plan all along. The man is no leader, he throws up these I have a dream speaches and doesn't dare say I have to cut here or there in order to achieve the dream. He thinks that this way when things implode he can once again point to gridlock as the reason.
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