Response to Attacks on Republicans for PAYGO - Granite Grok

Response to Attacks on Republicans for PAYGO

To the Editor:

Apparently I can read better than Mr. Veverka can hear.  In his October 6th letter in the Laconia Daily Sun, Mr. Veverka adamantly assured us the term “TEA Party” did not exist in the Hightower article referenced by my letter.  “TEA Party” can found near the beginning of paragraph 8.  

The focus of my letter was on the TEA Party, what it is and isn‘t, its criticisms of both parties and wasteful government operations, and its focus on principles, not political party.  My letter was inspired by the Hightower column, the most recent (at the time) attempt to malign the TEA Party and its principles.  

Hightower’s article and Veverka’s letter are just partisan attack pieces.  It is  a common liberal technique to attack anyone who tries to stop or even slow the growth of government.  Anyone who won’t cave to whatever liberals demand will be smeared.  It doesn’t matter whether the program works, is worth the cost, is counter-productive, or is affordable.  


The result of that intimidation is today’s approximately $15 Trillion debt and $80 Trillion in un-funded liabilities.  These are debts which unborn children will have to pay; this intergenerational theft, and it is immoral.    

President Obama plans to grow our debt by about $1 Trillion annually for the foreseeable future.  Everyone agrees this is unsustainable, yet, anyone trying to reduce spending is called names, in this case they are called indifferent to people’s suffering.         
      
Hightower and Veverka excoriate Republicans for attempting to find $1.5 Billion in spending cuts to balance the requested additional funds for disaster relief.  Consider:  

1.  If Democrats really felt that lives were at risk, why not agree to the cuts?  The cuts identified by Republicans would not have jeopardized a single life.  

2.  President Obama rushed to make $2 Billion in loan guarantees before the end of September, these could have been cut.  So, if Hightower and Veverka were right that lives were in jeopardy, then President Obama and the Senate Democrats were willing to sacrifice people’s lives in order to provide loan guarantees to businesses owned by their political supporters.        

3.  If Democrats thought the spending cuts should have been made in other areas, they could have amended the bill, that is an everyday practice in Congress.  They could negotiate with Republicans … you know, that thing that President Obama promised.  Democrat Leader Pelosi was an advocate of “Pay as you Go”, that is all Republicans were trying to do.  Does anyone really think that $1.5 Billion could not be easily cut out of a $4.5 Trillion budget?  Such a thought is ridiculous.     

4.  Finally, it was discovered that the money was not needed, that there was already was enough money in the budget.  One wonders if all President Obama’s agencies are run so poorly that they don’t know their financial status?  Or, was this last minute request for unneeded funds just an attempt to squeeze more money out of Congress?  Or, was this just a trumped up attempt to create an issue that Democrats could try to use to win a few extra votes from ignorant people?  

Liberal Democrat policies, all too often with Republican support, have put our country on the verge of fiscal disaster.  Any attempt to rein in government spending to avoid that disaster results in being called names, heartless, uncaring, racist, greedy, etc.  Americans can see the harsh consequences of overspending by looking at Greece, which is small enough to be “bailed out”.  

Unfortunately, the US is too big to be bailed out.  Current spending policies will result in a fiscal disaster.  It is not a question of if disaster will result, only a question of when it will happen.  When that disaster occurs, hundreds of millions of Americans will be harmed, many are likely to die.  It is the people who are unwilling to get our fiscal house in order who are “heartless” and willing to let Americans die.  

The TEA Party demands that Congress examine every dollar of spending, prioritize and start making real spending cuts.  In this case the cuts proposed by the Republicans could easily have be made.  If American lives were threatened by the attempt to balance this new spending with spending cuts,  it was the Democrats, rejecting any slowdown in their rush to bring on our  country’s fiscal disaster, who were being heartless and willing to let Americans die.                       

Don Ewing

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