On what model is this tea-bagged, Grover Norquist small-government, world based? What country now or historically has had a "small government" and had a robust economy and properous population -- not just for the richest few, but for the population in general?
These are questions that came to mind this morning as I read about the debt-ceiling deal announced between President Obama and the Republican minority in Congress.
The more I read, the more my conservative sensibilities were shaken. Political pundits in attempting to understand and explain the president's dealings with the so-called "opposition" speculate that he's truly a conservative. If so, why then has he so liberally OK'd Republican demands that will put the vast majority of The People in this country at risk?
Why is he so liberal in agreeing to unproven and untested policies that not only shrink the government but guarantee that the gaping divide between the moneyed and the rest of the country will continue to grow unabated?
Why doesn't he and whoever is advising him to follow this path to middle-America disaster look at the prospering nations around the world -- Germany, for instance, which has anything but small government policies, has a strong union-based workforce and has weathered the global financial crisis that has felled other countries' economies?
Why isn't the president being equally liberal in demanding a greater investment in the U.S. from the richest and corporate elite?
Why does he think the people who are shouldering the tax burden of those who are skating -- the multi-millionaires who can claim their income as capital gains and, thus, benefit from a 15-20% lower tax rate than the rest of us -- will continue to agree that those policies are a good idea?
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