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Gov. Mitch Daniels: American Debt Is 'The New Red Menace'

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Posted: 04.19.12, 10:25 AM

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phiscal

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Posted: 03.19.12, 08:59 AM

Eighty years of public sector experimentation with expansionism appears to be coming to an end. The debt it has spawned is clearly unsustainable.

Mitch Daniels is a star. Cutting public spending is a critical but very difficult priority. Economists posit that a 10% reduction in government spending as a % of GDP increases growth by 0.5% annually. Long-term economic growth is the key, it won't happen without controlling the 38% of the economy driven coercively via the public sector.

Mitch Daniels, Chris Christy, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, these are the people leading the effort to avert the debt catastrophe.

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Tommy Jefferson

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Posted: 08.06.11, 08:26 AM

It is sad that you believe there is any significant difference between America's two political parties.

For hundreds of years wealthy elites have profited by selling democracy to their livestock, this idea that 51% of the populace can use the violence of government to forcibly extract sustenance from the other 49% forever and ever until the end of time.

The result is always the same; war, poverty, and human suffering. TeeVee taught you that aggression against other humans via taxation is moral if it's for "a good cause" and "we voted on it".

Is it any mystery why millions of humans die every year from your violence when you don't even comprehend such basic kindergarten morality as "Don't steal"?

No principles. If an action is practical, it is acceptable. This is the way of animals and collectivists such as America's fascist political parties.

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steveh721

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Posted: 06.09.11, 02:17 PM

If this "red menace", i.e. debt and deficit (and I'll add trade deficit) is such a looming threat to liberty, why weren't the Republicans concerned about it before they created this problem? via two wars of choice, deregulation, decreasing taxes to the lowest ever, and creating tax incentives to corporations that encourage off-shore operations (thereby reducing jobs available for Americans).

Is Governor Daniels, in essence, saying that rwGOP politicians failed to analyze the consequence of their policies? failed to think? before enacting their ideologically-based legislation?

Imo, that's exactly what he's indirectly admitting. And that failure of analysis and practical--not ideological--thinking continues in the 112th Congress. Moreover, Americans are witnessing an unprecedented display of heretofore unimaginable dearth of responsible and intelligent actions by elected legislators, state and federal. The rwGOP represent Dumb and Dumber's rise to power in Congress. This is a horrifying tragedy that defies sufficiently egregious description.

Would someone like to write a book titled, "The rise of irrationalism--how Conservatives are embracing stupidity and ignorance to demolish America"?

Rather than doing everything they can to facilitate President Obama�s efforts to restore the health of America�s economy and restore America�s competitive edge through innovation via a narrow opportunity window, the rwGOP are focusing on undermining our Democratic Republic form of government, undermining or eliminating American rights and liberties, and undermining any beneficial service or program they glibly label �socialist� or �big government�, such as the DOE, EPA, Medicare and Social Security; and most of all, by assuring that American debt and deficit, including the trade deficit, just continues to push this country into a modern dark age.

The real "red menace" is the rwGOP--how apropos the GOP is represented by the color "red"....

We need to vote the right-wing Republicans out of political existence.

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