Federal Budget Deficit Series

Paper #4

While the GOP seems to have NO concrete ideas on the budget deficit other than cutting spending….regardless what it may do to the economy….but I think they want it that way….why?….because as long as the economy stays in the crapper the better their prospects are for picking more Repubs in the Congress…it is all a political game played with the lives of the American people…..Rep. Ryan has some ideas…while they are pretty vague some are pretty good and others are just out right wrong…

One of the better ideas offered is the line item veto…that every Repub president has been drooling over for more than a decade…but is it a good idea?

On the surface I believe it is a good one…..however (I am tired of using the “but”) this could turn into a partisan piece of crap…….a president could remove things that he is personally, notice I said personally, objects to in the budget.  It could be used to pay off the donors who have given massive amounts to his campaign.  This could effectively kill the notion of political compromise which our teachers tell us is the basis of the Federal system.

All in all, I must disagree with Rep. Ryan….while the idea is a good one….the reality of it will suck and suck bad, especially in the hands of those elitists that care nothing of the rest of the people.  This could be used to punish political opponents, regardless of who it hurts in the long run…….

I say leave the system as it is….and stop all this jerking around over something that is NOT that important in the large scheme of running a good government.