Obama in a recent speech about the debt limit deadline: "It's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder. So we might as well do it now: pull off the Band-Aid, eat our peas. Now is the time to do it. If not now, when?"
As the debt ceiling deadline draws near these clowns in Washington are acting like eight year olds, just blaming each other with both sides not willing to negotiate while the American people stand to be the big losers. The national debt is going to bankrupt this country and some very serious cuts in spending need to be made. But as a conservative Republican I also agree that there are probably tax loopholes that can be eliminated (ethanol subsidy, etc.).
I know about negotiating, especially when the subject is "eat your peas". When my youngest son was eight years old, one evening he refused to eat his peas at dinner. I had had a bad day at work and reverting to the way my parents raised me, I told him; "You are not leaving the table until you eat your peas". He sat there and stared forward, making no effort to eat. So I dug in my heels and we left him at the table and I told him he could not get up until he ate his peas. A half hour passed, he just sat there - no progress, another half hour, no progress. Finally I lost my cool and told him; "Eat your peas or you will get the strap!" His response; "How many times? ". He won the battle.
But here is my point; if an eight year old can master the art of negotiation these so-called politicians we elect to represent us need to figure out how to get their act together. And Obama needs to start showing some leadership and solve this problem. He is the key and so far his performance as our president has been pitiful in his ability to manage this country's financial affairs.
Conspirators believe he is deliberately trying to let this country's economy fail so it can be converted to a socialist society. I have never bought into that, but sometimes I wonder.
As the debt ceiling deadline draws near these clowns in Washington are acting like eight year olds, just blaming each other with both sides not willing to negotiate while the American people stand to be the big losers. The national debt is going to bankrupt this country and some very serious cuts in spending need to be made. But as a conservative Republican I also agree that there are probably tax loopholes that can be eliminated (ethanol subsidy, etc.).
I know about negotiating, especially when the subject is "eat your peas". When my youngest son was eight years old, one evening he refused to eat his peas at dinner. I had had a bad day at work and reverting to the way my parents raised me, I told him; "You are not leaving the table until you eat your peas". He sat there and stared forward, making no effort to eat. So I dug in my heels and we left him at the table and I told him he could not get up until he ate his peas. A half hour passed, he just sat there - no progress, another half hour, no progress. Finally I lost my cool and told him; "Eat your peas or you will get the strap!" His response; "How many times? ". He won the battle.
But here is my point; if an eight year old can master the art of negotiation these so-called politicians we elect to represent us need to figure out how to get their act together. And Obama needs to start showing some leadership and solve this problem. He is the key and so far his performance as our president has been pitiful in his ability to manage this country's financial affairs.
Conspirators believe he is deliberately trying to let this country's economy fail so it can be converted to a socialist society. I have never bought into that, but sometimes I wonder.
1 comment:
Hi Dad,
Yes I think we all wonder.... yet will we ever really know? NO... We can only guess.... Our president needs to buck up and take more control for anything to happen in our world. He needs to cut everyone salaries in the government, senate, and his own in half and have all extra expenses stopped! If they need to stay at work to solve a problem make them bring their lunch or dinner and don't order out! No car allowances, meals brought in or eaten at expensive restaurants, vacations and golf games where WE pay the bill. No more paying for everyone else's health bills and if someone is in jail, make them go to war for their punishment and somehow make this work for us not the convict in jail that gets full dental, medical and college free! I know I am not politically correct in how I am saying all of this and am probably don't see all of the areas that we need to cut, yet we all see how much could be done.
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