Cont'd....

If things like this weren't so pathetic, they'd be hilarious.

Can you imagine someone like John Boehner saying of the critics of the Ryan/Murray budget bill (a "compromise" it isn't!), "They've lost all credibility."  Again, if this wasn't so pathetic, it would be a riot.  But can many on Capitol Hill have lost any more credibility than Boehner?  Some supporters of the budget bill (Remember, the Senate hasn't passed a budget in about three years.  There's some great leadership by Harry Reid, heh?  Of course, we all know he's playing games.) have acquiesced, claiming, "It's better than nothing."  What a dumb thing to say!  First, is "nothing" the only alternative?  Certainly it isn't.  Second, no this isn't better than "nothing."  It's a bad deal that adds billions of dollars to the deficit, eliminates many of the sequester cuts from last year, raises taxes, and more all with the promise to make cuts eight or ten years up the road.  Yeah, now who really believes that?  I even heard a House Republican committee chair defend the budget bill in such a way.  This is the modus operandi of the Democrats.  They get what they want now, with the promises of ceding things in the future.  But, funny how none of those promises are ever kept; things are never ceded. And the Republicans fall for it again and again.....

When is a tax not a tax?  It's when it's called "a user fee."  There are a number of tax increases in this budget bill that are hidden as "user fees."  The one on airline tickets is one of them.  This House committee chair defended them this AM by saying those who use airplanes should pay for that use; why should people not flying pay for an airline "user fee?"  But, what is it that flyers are going to get from this user fee?  What service or product will they get from this fee that nonflyers won't also get?  I guess if that's the case, then maybe I shouldn't have to pay taxes for schools.  My kids have graduated.

And when is a spending decrease not a spending decrease?  Again, it's when Congress is speaking.  Usually it's the Dems who use this disingenuous if not outright dishonest ploy.  They often employ it against those mean-spirited Republicans who want to take things away with spending and tax cuts.  Here's how it's working again.  There are no cuts in spending.  What there are--and only in some cases--there's less of a spending increase than was originally planned.  For instance, instead of spending $54 billion more, only $45 billion more will be spent.  That's not a cut or decrease; it's just not as big of an increase.  And, it's dishonest.

How can Hillary be ahead in the earliest of '16 polls??????  She swamps her potential Dem opponents and pretty easily defeats any of the Republicans.  I guess I just don't understand.  She not only revealed her lack of character in the past, but as Sec of State showed her incompetence.  I'm not saying she isn't smart, certainly a lot smarter than our current White House resident.  What I am saying is I can't at all figure out how anyone can vote for her.  I'd better watch out what I write......

That recent student shooting in Colo, is that any surprise?  The kid was going after a teacher who didn't give the kid what he wanted--a clean record that might help him into the USAF Academy, from what I understand.  So, the kid went to kill the teacher because he wasn't getting into the Academy now anyway.  I wonder about this one.  Did the poor treatment, publicly, of teachers have anything to do with leading this kid to try to kill the teacher?  That is, teachers are disrespected, blamed for everything that goes wrong in education (and remember I'm not a real big fan of many teachers).  They are vastly overpaid and underworked.  Student test scores far below other nations' student test scores are teachers' fault.  Teachers are publicly ridiculed--they are the fault of all these bankruptcies.  So, they are expendable.  Is that what this kid thought?  I don't know, but what's offiing a teacher--they're useless anyway?  And what have we been teaching kids for the past 30 or more years?  That they are the most important things!  Schools have told kids, in essence, "God doesn't make any junk" (but he really does, with evidence surrounding us).  So, when this kid didn't get what he wanted, well, he went loony-tunes.  He's supposed to get what he wants, right?  Maybe I'm all wet on this, but maybe those responsible for the above should pause and think about what they are doing and done.