Comments on: Punt on the fiscal cliff

By: 89Hoo

89Hoo — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:11:39 +0000

28 – that’s one approach. You also try the straightforward answer (I promise that I will remain disappointed…).

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:54:06 +0000

I will try to live with the regret.

By: 89Hoo

89Hoo — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:30:00 +0000

25 – and I knew you couldn’t give a straightforward answer to a straightforward question. I remain disappointed in you.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:28:03 +0000

#24 – “Michael, no doubt you know me better than I know myself.”

Nah, Sandi, I gave up trying to figure you out a long time ago.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:16:58 +0000

I knew you would not disappoint me 89Hoo.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:16:22 +0000

Michael, no doubt you know me better than I know myself. Context has never mattered. What I said was: I cannot fathom how people so afraid of and disdainful of their government can bear to live here. In response to your comment: "Registration tells those in power who has the guns and where to go to confiscate them". If you think that means I "mock someone else for not trusting the government". So be it.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:04:37 +0000

Bob H, you and Michael, 89Hoo, Jim Lucas and the occasional other conservatives who pop in here do more to assure me of my logic being spot on and my reality being the one in effect, than anything I read, hear or see anywhere else. When my liberal flag is drooping, a few minutes here sees it unfurl and fly high again. Thanks for that!

谢谢你

By: 89Hoo

89Hoo — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:00:51 +0000

20 – translation: I don’t know what’s wrong, I don’t care what’s wrong, I don’t know how to fix it, I don’t care how to fix it…but it sure as hell isn’t a democrat’s fault.

Very helpful. And consistent.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:58:25 +0000

#20 – “I do not believe I mock people for “not trusting” the government…”

Wow, believe it or not, but you did exactly that the other day when you expressed your failure to understand how anyone can live here.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:45:01 +0000

I do not believe I mock people for “not trusting” the government, I believe I “mock people” for believing their guns will enable them to fight the government. There are many stupid laws, inept systems and corrupt behaviors in our government. I do not believe I have ever denied that. I am often the one pointing them out.

My “comments about bloated bureaucracy and reform are addressed specifically to this” blog conversation. I would not deign to address this Congress.

After the 2011 Congress was sworn in, there has been no hope for their salvaging any vestige of governance much less good governance. I think I have been more than clear all along about that.

I already said the “Leviathan” took decades and decades to build. However, THIS Congress is the one charged with responding to the problems of that creation and the economic collapse we suffered and they have been woefully inept in every way I can fathom to judge.

There is provision for the Executive Branch and even the Supreme Court to be “overruled”. I will not blame one or nine when the truth is 535. To do so is a cop-out. It may be made worse with a complicit Judicial and Executive Branch, make no mistake, but the 535 in Congress are our elected representatives to make laws, fix laws, address needs and create solutions.

No reform can be “irrespective of who is Congress”. You know very well what “the basis of determining whether a certain bureaucracy/agency/office/whatever is to be reorganized in some form or eliminated completely” would be. This is more of your baiting, but this time I will answer: Whether it is efficacious and worth the price.

Parse away.