I have never understood how the government spending only as much money as it gets in taxes is a bad thing. Neocon Republican newspeak would have everyone believing that “Tax and Spend” is BAD.
Then, in the very same breath, the Neocons (Gingrich, Cheney, the lot of them) spend 8-years running this country’s financial system into the ground with their BORROW AND SPEND policies (coupled with the laughable “concept” of Trickle-Down Economic). Go figure?
So, taxing the people and spending the money is BAD…
But, spending the money of future generations (money that doesn’t yet exist) is a totally acceptable way to run things? I’m sorry, but when was the last time that ANY of us real people could get away with running our finances that way?
Tax-and-spend is the way it works. Tax-and-spend is not some cuss-word, but the way things work best (if they are going to work at all).
Borrow-and-spend is the quickest way to destroy it all (as we are currently seeing in graphic, technicolored reality).
Do these Neocons (all of whom are market liberals (AKA: NeoLiberals)) really think that they can so readily define our reality? Well, they do, and they have, and I am sickened to have to tell you that a significant number of US citizens really believe this “tax-and-spend” is bad, crapola. So, I put it to everyone to try it for yourselves…
Yes, try spending money that you don’t have yet, and see if you don’t have to pay it right back (WITH interest)… How long can you maintain a functioning and sustainable household by only borrowing money to live, not actually just living within the “confines” of a known amount of money that you will get? What, ten years? Can you live for ten years totally on BORROWED MONEY? I’d love to see you try it!
No, the BORROW AND SPEND Republicans would have you believe (and have made over 30% of Americans actually believe it (my mom in Montana, for instance)) that TAX AND SPEND is bad, but BORROW AND SPEND is totally Ok… This is some sick, sick, sick-headed-and-wrong shit… People believe it, though…and that is the sickest thing of all.
So, before anyone gets their panties totally wadded-up… I am NOT the person who believes that Democrats are actually any better — nope — because they are all POLITICIANS, and they are (nearly all of them) NeoLiberals.
Bill Clinton? NeoLiberal (market liberal) NAFTA, anyone?
Al Gore? NeoLiberal.
Nancy Pelosi? NeoLiberal.
Barbara Boxer? NeoLiberal.
Newt Gingrich? NeoLiberal.
Richard M. Nixon? NeoLiberal (opened up China for TRADE)
George H.W. Bush? NeoLiberal.
Ronald Reagan? NeoLiberal.
George W. Bush? NeoLiberal.
Are you getting all this? I don’t see any “good guys” in all of this. I don’t side with the “Democrats” or the “Republicans” in this. Our country’s economic policies are so heinous (especially since Nixon took away any pretense of even a sniff of gold standing behind the US dollar) that we have become the financial black hole that is dragging down the entire world with the current collapse of our currency.
Fix the US dollar and the “world economy” can right itself (eventually). Don’t fix the US dollar and every action will merely be another finger in the leaking dike of reality. It is that simple…our economy isn’t dying, our currency died and is taking the economy (and the world) with it.
The next, big thing will be inflation, because the US dollar isn’t fixed, so all the band-aids (and green ink for printing more dollars) in the world can’t make it buy MORE stuff and still pay the interest for all the BORROWING we’ve already done.
Every US dollar is LOANED into existence WITH INTEREST…how long could such a currency last before it collapses on itself? We are finding out right now, and I am both angry and sad that our leaders aren’t fixing the REAL problem: US currency.
