They Love To Do A Little Side Step

Big government didn’t cause the ‘Great Recession,’ but big government legislators are anchor-dragging and slowing America’s recovery.  It’s politics.  (The President isn’t nice to them, doesn’t like them very much, and thinks it’s a waste of time to talk to them.  I’m with him, along with 90% of Americans.) 

Legislators naturally point away from their own presence in the problem: “It’s this President’s lack of leadership,” or “Obamacare,” or “the National Debt,” or “runaway spending” (authorized by legislators!), or “Socialism,” or “Islamic thinking,” or everybody’s favorite, “The federal government is too big.”  Admit it, if you’ve been listening you’ve heard all of these before.  You probably recognize them as excuses.

To legislators goes the blame for failing to adequately minimize the impact of, and speed recovery from ‘The Great Recession.’  Legislators who short-sheeted the TARP, reducing its effectiveness.  Who failed on the budget and gave us “The Sequester” with all its human suffering.  Who are so bent on sticking it to America’s hungry and needy that after a year, they still can’t agree on a farm bill.  Who play chicken with debt ceiling deadlines, and have utterly failed to create the jobs that suffering Americans need.  It is legislators who are starving our economy to feed the golden idol of austerity.

             Around here, we think the problem is good-hearted, patriotic, well-meaning, legislators, who happen to have been wrong about nearly everything since 2009.  Either that, or mean-spirited, anchor-dragging obstructionists—not the size of government, or any of those other excuses.