MAGICAL PONIES SHITTING GLITTER

[kpete]

MAGICAL PONIES SHITTING GLITTER
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........... let's say we have a magic wand that balances the budget for us; then what? What is the benefit? Do interest rates fall? They're already insanely low. Does unemployment fall? If so, how and why would we expect that? Are there businesses out there that want to hire but won't because of the budget deficit? This is what I get from the statements by Paul Ryan and like-minded conservatives: If we cut spending it will restore "confidence" to "the market" and suddenly the economy will start growing in leaps and bounds.

Phase One: Collect underpants / cut spending
Phase Two: ???
Phase Three: Economic growth / profits

I am sick to death of hearing about the deficit and austerity-as-panacea arguments that punt on the issue of what this is supposed to accomplish entirely. To hear Mitch McConnell tell the tale, we will cut entitlement programs and then, I guess, somehow, everything is just going to be better. Magical sparkleponies will appear in your front yard shitting glittery, low fat (but full flavored!) frozen yogurt with your favorite toppings.

See, it's not really the ends that matter to the right, because the means – cutting taxes, gutting the welfare state, etc. – are the ends.

the rest:
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/19/magical-ponies-shitting-glitter/

[patrice]

1. Point well made. BUT, who's going to balance the budget, and inflict all of that pain, and not get

SOMETHING in return.

Get what in return?

I'm lookin' for tax reform and I would particularly like to see the kinds of things that the Progressive Caucus is proposing. Also, if Medicare is authentically rejuvenated, it could become the basis for Medicare for All.

We'll see what kind of staying power Liberals and Progressives have, as long as they don't MAKE THEMSELVES ir-relevant, or LET themselves be made ir-relevant, and then go around screaming (with the encouragement of Tea Partyers, Libertarians, Greens, and sundry other third-whatever-you-haves) that they are ir-relevant.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. While I gree for the most part, but a weak dollar hurts the poor the most as gas/food prices rise.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. "Throw a rock through their window, then sell them a burglar alarm"

The rock was the Bush Administration and the useless war spending. The burglar alarm is the long-desired dismantling of the remaining New Deal and Great Society programs.

[Edweird]

4. K&R for the South Park reference.

[democrank]

5. It`s apparent to me that you`ve forgotten something......

war is peace

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. "somehow, everything is just going to be better"

Yes, exactly.

No one EVER stops these TURDS and makes them talk it through logically, including short AND long-term, real-world repercussions!


it's not really the ends that matter to the right, because the means – cutting taxes, gutting the welfare state, etc. – are the ends.---yep, and though they are so big on authoritarian punishment and talk of responsibility, they know that the scenes they invariably make using threats and fear and blame are the perfect smokescreen that throws off any outsider questioning their destructive plans.