Simple speak

If Steve has taught me anything, it is to speak simply about things that matter.  If a robber breaks into your house in the middle of the night, shouldn’t you have the right to use a gun?  Well, here’s Boehner negotiating with Obama trying to avoid the fiscal cliff.  Trouble is, Obama doesn’t negotiate.  He won’t put spending cuts on the table and continues to campaign around the country for tax increases on the rich.  Here’s his strategy.  Go over the fiscal cliff and then come back afterwards with a proposal to cut back the tax increases on the middle class 98%.  Makes him look like a white knight, and if he doesn’t get it, he will blame R’s for the tax increase. 

Here’s what R’s should do.  Stop negotiating.  Explain that if we took raise taxes like Obama wants, it will fund  the country for 5 days and cost almost a million jobs. He’s not serious.  Now tell us how you’ll stop overspending, Mr. President. What you propose doesn’t amount to a spit in the Pacific ocean. Keep hammering the point. Make him explain.

Of course the media lap dogs will all come to his rescue about how the R’s don’t have any plan or any proposals.  Bull spit.  It’s the President’s job to write a budget.  Do your job.  And Obama wants to go over the fiscal cliff (which is really not much of a cliff) so he can implement part II of his strategy.  So we’ll probably go over the cliff. 

Now he comes back to Congress with his white knight proposal about eliminating the tax increases on middle class.  Pass it immediately, but pass it along with proposals to kill the death tax and other taxes on the middle class that were snuck into Obamacare.  We Republicans want ALL the tax increases on the middle class removed.  Obamacare and fiscal cliff were just sneak ways of looting the middle class while claiming to soak the rich. 

BO won’t like the smell of this. But if he defends just the income tax cuts, he would be forced to answer for all the tax increases that he’s hit the middle class for.  Chances are good that he would just say, I can’t do anything.  The R’s have killed my proposal.  Meanwhile he secretly is glad for all the tax increases that took place.  Then he can spend all the more.  So the R’s need to keep raising the heat.  Remove all the tax increases on the middle class, Mr. President.

So what happens to government revenue?  It goes up for a couple years as higher taxes take place but then people arrange their affairs to avoid the taxes and true to Laffer curve, revenue actually falls.  This will keep happening as our bond ratings are lowered and deficit spending continues.  R’s have to blame this on Obama’s unbalanced budget.  If you don’t live within your means, the creditors will come after you.  When creditors come after us, there won’t be any business or any jobs. The only way for government to get out from under the debt is inflation. Everybody’s life savings will be become worthless. Or future is in a helluva fix.  We have been elected as the people’s representatives to make sure our future doesn’t go to there.  And we ain’t backing down.