flacaltenn
Diamond Member
No.. Of course not. They just demonize anything Russian and SWOON over North Korean dictatorships.. Foreign policy ain't much different or better under EITHER party...
No big differences in a LOT of areas.. Where there needs to be. Like in fiscal sanity and responsible oversight of the bloated beast they keep over-feeding..
Wait, guy, you are kind of trying to have it both ways here.
You are agreeing with Mac that the two parties are "too extreme" and then saying that there's no difference between them.
of course, nobody is "swooning' over the NK dictatorship. and if Russia is being Demonized, it's because of what they actually did.
Here's the problem with "Fiscal Sanity". We don't want fiscal sanity. Fiscal sanity would be to either slash spending on programs drastically, or to make people pay through the nose with taxes. Instead we just watched Congress, after 8 years of whining about Obama's spending, slash taxes and increase spending.
There is nothing unique about mediocrity, complacency and corruption.. They stand for nothing, they never learn economics or foreign affairs from history and they basically function on the basis of winning elections. All that is PATENTLY true.. So I CAN have it both ways.
Fiscal sanity is what keeps banks from default and allows you as a nation to BE over your head in debt.. You fail to show responsibility, and SURPRISE --- your ability to SELL debt disappears. Or your inflation causes default when just the INTEREST on the debt becomes the majority of your spending. It's important.
And you don't have to go full austerity. You just need to focus on the things the Fed NEEDS to do and can do well. Hint --- that list is a LOT shorter than what we're doing..