Originally posted by: Nines
Multiple government-oriented and directly affiliated agencies ( these reports are FROM US Govt groups) have stated and warned for several years regarding the unsustainable mountain of debt this country is currently operating under..and it's perpetually getting deeper. These entities include Bureau of Fiscal Services, the Government Accountability Office, the Tax Foundation, Research Affiliates, and the Congressional Budget Office ; hell, Google their reports. This is largely from purely governmental sources / entities..the supposed trough we all water / consume from.
Bi-partisan waste / fraud / overspending has now come home to roost with a national debt of 37T. Yet now that government leadership is attempting to address these issues directly with fervor, the left including the politicians hit the streets in protest. The entire citizenry has to operate under some type of budgetary cap with restraints..why shouldn't we demand our government do the same? It's been 30+ years since we had a balanced budget. The descriptive term 'big government' and associative spending trends has put us in a deep fiscal hole. I don't care who or how one votes, the problem is much bigger and beyond that.
The left bemoans and protests the cost-cutting attempts simply because it's the other side.. that's the basis. I'll revisit and state again that these actions have to be backed by legislation in order to be sustainable and that multiple courts and blow-ups are happening and will happen until laws are enacted regarding funding cuts. So that bus needs a GPS reset but is at least attempting to head in the right direction, imo.
The debate regarding specific program and agency cuts will be an inherent component of congressional legislation; there will remain specific spending and program conflicts that both sides will disagree with after laws are enacted..but it's the general direction that counts. Gotta do something, girls.
Given your stridency and stalwart dedication to the cause, you should be against federal budgets that create deficits, right?
And if that's so, you should be against BOTH a) spending above revenue AND/OR b) collecting revenue below spending. Either produces the same result, right? Ultimately, increased debt?
Yet, the conservitard/MAGA shibboleth has been, for decades, a crusade against DAT HORRIBUL GUMMINT A'SPENDIN'. Never mind moves that gut the revenue side of the equation, such as Trump's tax giveaways for the rich. He cut tax revenue from corporations IN HALF. That functionally had the same effect as a 50% spending increase (given a crude estimate of a 50/50 split in tax revenues between individuals and corporations).
So it's cryingly obvious that in addition to reining in spending, we also have to increase revenue. Restoring corporate taxation to pre-Trump levels would do much toward reducing the deficit and thus, the national debt.
But do you think that will ever happen? Do you think that Queen Elon will ever allow it? Lots of luck! It's much easier to go on pointing fingers at DAT HORRIBUL GUMMINT A'SPENDIN.
Your stupidly simplistic representation of how "the left" reacts to so-called "cost-cutting" ignores the fact that many of the costs being cut are being done so indiscriminately and without forethought or analysis. Elon's slash-and-burn "agency" would solve every problem by nuking it. That's the opposite of beneficial.
I would also recommend that conservatives finally admit that pissing away trillions is OK with them as long as it's pissed away on something they LIKE.
