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Friday, October 30, 2015

Good Riddance To Johnny Lawnchair—–The Fastest Fold On The Potomac

There are few political hacks in Washington more deserving of everlasting ignominy than retiring speaker John Boehner. So here’s a vehement good riddance to the man who has single-handedly destroyed whatever pathetic semblance of fiscal responsibility that remained in Washington.

The so-called bipartisan budget deal he confected as a parting gesture doesn’t even deserve to be called a farce. It’s actually just an extension of Washington’s pathological lying to the American public about the monumental fiscal calamity now brewing.

The chart below shows the patented formula—– employed for the second time since the sequester mechanism was put in place during the debt ceiling crisis of 2011.

It will increase spending by $85 billion in the here and now by busting the FY 2016 and 2017 caps. This new red ink will then, purportedly, be off-set way down the road with gimmicks, imaginary IRS audit revenues and hazy disability benefit reforms which will never materialize. Never.

Indeed, these people are beyond shame. The big bulge of $33 billion of savings shown for the never never land of 2025 is due to a sharp increase in assumed discretionary spending cuts and Medicare benefit reductions. That is, the very same programs that are being pumped up during the next three years!

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yep 2025 my retirement year. I m screwed cause if fed dives so does my portfolio

lmclain said...

Prison for "we, the people" if we ran OUR finances that way.
A CAREER in Congress for them, maybe even a shot at the Presidency.
Have I mentioned we need to begin hanging those pedophilic, alcoholic, thieving liars??
I'd turn that "most exclusive club in the world" (their words) into an empty chamber if I could find enough rope.
I guess I just made another "list".

Keep cheering.