{"id":1187,"date":"2011-08-17T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2011-08-17T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:27:04","slug":"the-wolf-and-the-lamb-deficit-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/the-wolf-and-the-lamb-deficit-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wolf And The Lamb Deficit Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did anyone really think that this Congress was capable of a real solution to the debt and deficit crisis?\u00a0 Certainly Standard & Poors didn\u2019t think so<\/a>.\u00a0 As the Cato Institute noted in a picture\u2019s-worth-a-couple-trillion-dollars<\/a> fashion, the long-term effect of this deal on the nation\u2019s debt accumulation trajectory will be negligible.\u00a0 And when ideological non-soulmates Keith Olbermann<\/a> and Judge Andrew Napolitano<\/a> both suspect that a key component of the bill, the so-called \u201cSuper Committee\u201d, might be unconstitutional, you know we\u2019re in uncharted waters.<\/p>\n

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Congress shoots... and misses<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe now the folks that were never politically involved, but have been suddenly active via the Tea Party, will wake up and realize it boils down to having the right elected officials<\/a> in place when the votes are being cast and counted.\u00a0\u00a0 In the long term, that\u2019s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the meantime, Congress has to find a couple hundred billion dollars a year to cut from the spending.\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s a surefire way to do that in a single vote, and because it spreads \u201cthe pain\u201d around to all factions, it\u2019s a plan that could actually pass:\u00a0 End all corporate welfare.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continue reading at Forbes Opinions…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Did anyone really think that this Congress was capable of a real solution to the debt and deficit crisis?\u00a0 Certainly Standard & Poors didn\u2019t think so.\u00a0 As the Cato Institute noted in a picture\u2019s-worth-a-couple-trillion-dollars fashion, the long-term effect of this deal on the nation\u2019s debt accumulation trajectory will be negligible.\u00a0 And when ideological non-soulmates Keith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}