DBP
wake, don’t believe the hype.
When they set this deal up, both sides knew exactly what they were doing. Trust me: they were both winking and nodding furiously at each other the whole time.
I gotta give ’em credit, actually. It was a brilliant way to push through needed cuts without taking any blame.
For future reference, here’s how it’s done:
Step 1: Schedule automatic cuts, but make it so those cuts don’t take place until several months AFTER you ink the deal, and make them contingent on both parties failing to make a deal on cuts beforehand. [wink]
Step 2: Continue posturing and failing to reach an agreement until the clock runs out. [wink-wink]
Step 3: When the cuts happen, blame the other guy. [wink-nod-wink]
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Although I feel bad for them, low-income people will survive this — with help from the rest of us.
Maybe this could even be a good thing, in the sense that it might encourage communities to start coming back together. As a nation, we’ve really lost our sense of community in the past 30 years or so, and I miss that.
In any case, I think it’s clear that the days of Americans looking to government to provide all those things that were once provided by families and communities are over.
Remember: It takes a village.
Not a government. A village.