Budget talks: This is getting nasty

Before we go too far off the tangent, back to the original point:

Was the child born in 1982 burdened by the deficit spending throughout his childhood as he prepared to enter college in 1999?

Or did things look pretty good to him?

 

Good point, BTE. And the kids about to FINISH college in 1999, wow, things were looking really good for them.

 

Particularly since they were the first group for whom Clinton made the BJ such as a celebrated and casually accepted part of life. Still his greatest contribution as president.

 

You should have been around those kids who majored in IT/IS type fields around then. Even the doofuses were getting slobbered over by the recruiters. I taught students who got six-figure job offers who could neither: A) solve a system of two equations with two unknowns; nor B) write more than five sentences without making at least one grammatical error.

 

Thank you, Baron.

I live in an area of 350,000 people. We had a small airport that flew three United flights to San Francisco a day for several years. Sometime in '09, United pulled the plug, saying it was losing money. I flew that twice for work and both times, the plane was packed.

Now, I'm not sure if it was packed all the time, but from talking to people who flew it more than me, they said every flight they were on was full.

Meanwhile, our closest airport is Burbank -- 50 miles away. So I weep no tears for Thief River Falls, Devil's Asshole, Snakes Navel or any of the other "burgs" losing service. If you combined most of them, their population wouldn't equal ours.

 

That's the time to deal with the budget -- same issues we are facing now, only in better times. Raise revenue where it's appropriate. Cut where it's appropriate. Try to get the debt down before the next recession.

I'm not saying that it would have prevented the current situation at all because a year later, you'd be revisiting it again. Just in general, it's better to rein in costs when times are good than when times are tough because when times are tough, cutting costs put you in danger of also declining revenue, if you step out of the personal finance analogy and into a business analogy.

 

That's me! Where was my six-figure job ;-)

 

There are people that simply cannot admit Obama might not be infallible. It's amazing. After the next election they are going to be like the stuffy NYC libs who, after Nixon breezed to a landslide over McGovern, said, "I can't believe he won. I do not know one person that voted for him."

 

I'm working on the second one!

 

And what this has to do with the debt ceiling? Who knows?

I don't think anyone in America gives a shit who gets the credit for avoiding economic doom, they just want a deal to be done.

 

Oh there are a lot of people on right-wing radio who are worried about who gets credit, or rather who doesn't get credit. It's the same principle as when Bill Kristol advocated the defeat of Hillary's health plan in 1993 because the Republicans couldn't afford to let the Democrats look like the good guys.

 

I don't consider people on right-wing radio to be representative of the general population. Same goes for those who call left-wing radio shows.

People who go about their daily lives want this shit dealt with, like, yesterday. NO ONE wants this shit to go over a cliff.