The Real Crisis the Media Ignores

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Headlines about the danger of a “government shutdown” are misleading, and this is not an accident. Democrats are playing politics, and their media allies are talking about a “crisis” for which they blame Republicans. The noise is intended to distract from what this is really about: It’s not about Ted Cruz and it’s not about ObamaCare.

The deadline to pass a continuing resolution ( which is not a “budget,” although some in the media keep calling it that) is required by the fact that the federal government is nearly $17 trillion in debt, and Democrats don’t want to do anything about that problem. The government is spending more money than it takes in, and this addiction to deficit spending — about $1.86 billion a day — is the underlying reality that the media don’t want you to think about. To put this into perspective, I stated three basic facts on Twitter:

Have you seen anything about this in the mainstream media? Do you remember any reporter asking President Obama, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi any questions about this problem? Why is President Obama sending out Dan Pfeiffer to compare Republicans to terrorists? Why is Harry Reid ranting about “tea party anarchists“? Why are Republicans being portrayed as if they were the cause of this crisis, while the media ignore the fundamental problem of deficit spending? And why aren’t more Americans demanding answers to these questions?

 

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  1. Temporary spending extension. (one of many this year)

    If Democrats are such good money managers, and we all have nothing to worry about with the full implementation of their showcase program, ObamaCare, how come they keep running out of money?

    You’d think they would cut back a little considering that the #1 largest expense in their platform is ObamaCare.

  6. The problem is everyone is for cutting spending and balancing the budget – right up until the time comes to cut something. Then the consituencies for the spending mobilize, in turn, to defend their piece of the pie. Same thing with the tax code.

    The best ideas Jimmy Carter ever had were Zero Base Budgeting, eliminating the baselines altogether, and sunset legislation which would require all federal laws and regulations have an expiration date. Naturally, both were DOA to his Democratic Congress.

  7. Why would the media report that? They support the higher spending levels just as much as does the lovely Mrs Pelosi.

    It’s not that the media have the Democrats’ backs; it’s that they are on their knees for the Democrats.

  10. Would Carter (Carter? Really?) have proposed these seemingly sensible things if there were but a slim chance in Hell they would ever be implemented?

  13. Seems to me that “crisis!” column describes how Obamee and the Treasury Department would have to react to being forced into a balanced budget situation. It lays out the fact that somebody would get stiffed, and going forward significant cuts would have to be made.

    That means the outcome is 100% Obamee’s choice. Walk away from the debt ceiling table and let The One deal with the mess. When he comes crawling back in November with an approval rating lower than that of Congress, he’ll make the deal to repeal Obameecare and give in to a host of other significant cuts and GOP demands.

    I am telling Republicans this: if you vote to raise the debt ceiling in any way, we will drive you from office. That is 100%. There are no safe seats on this. Count on it.

  14. Shut it down is a euphemism for running a smaller government. It a zombie. You can’t kill it. It runs on auto-pilot.

  17. It’s so hard to get worked up over the potential government shut down since I died in agony with the rest of my family because of the sequester.

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