100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

[ElNono]

Here's an idea I would love to advocate.

1) A record of you vote is made.

2) Any increased spending voted for by a member of congress you voted for, is equally paid for by those who voted for that candidate.

3) Any decreased in spending is equally distributed among those who voted for the members of congress passing such measures.

Other ideas based on these ideals.

What do you all think? Would this reduce government spending and waste, or not?

I think no politician would vote for such a law...

[Wild Cobra]

I think no politician would vote for such a law...

No kidding.

Do you think it would reduce spending?

[ElNono]

No kidding.
Do you think it would reduce spending?

Does it matter? It's not going to happen.

If we're into imaginary spending cuts, we just can simply propose to freeze spending at 5% of the GDP and save a ton of money. Not going to happen though.

[Wild Cobra]

Does it matter? It's not going to happen.

If we're into imaginary spending cuts, we just can simply propose to freeze spending at 5% of the GDP and save a ton of money. Not going to happen though.

No game in you today huh?

[Marcus Bryant]

marcus bryant = david brooks.

the conservative that no other conservative agrees with.

I don't particularly care for Barack or the crease of his pants and I'm certainly not a "conservative," at least as it is defined today as supporting unlimited wars and unlimited deficits under the guise of tax cuts, as well as the usual nativist boob bait for the Joe Bobs of the world. There's nothing really conservative about conservatism as it is practiced today. It's merely a traditionalist veneer on an activist, militarist state. The rhetoric about welfare and en lements is particularly amusing, considering how many putative conservatives are draining the public treasury while castigating welfare queens or what not.

Brooks' views diverge from mine on plenty of issues. That it's seen as a problem that one may not hold the politically correct conservative view on every issue speaks volumes about what American conservatism has become.

[ElNono]

No game in you today huh?

To be honest, I would rather read actual practical ideas for reducing spending, instead of fairy tales. But that's just me.

[Winehole23]

Brooks' views diverge from mine on plenty of issues. That it's seen as a problem that one may not hold the politically correct conservative view on every issue speaks volumes about what American conservatism has become.

Reverence for state power and reflexive identification with the majority has replaced the traditional conservative skepsis of the same. If you don't swim with the crowd, you're ostracized as a fossil.

Of course, there are much worse fates than being shunned by the neo-jacobins currently running the movement clubhouse.

[Winehole23]

(Being snubbed by SnC for lacking conservative bona fides is bit like getting reproached for one's bad looks by a gastropod. Faintly amusing, faintly pathetic.)

[coyotes_geek]

Here's an idea I would love to advocate.

1) A record of you vote is made.

2) Any increased spending voted for by a member of congress you voted for, is equally paid for by those who voted for that candidate.

3) Any decreased in spending is equally distributed among those who voted for the members of congress passing such measures.

Other ideas based on these ideals.

What do you all think? Would this reduce government spending and waste, or not?

Just pass a balanced budget amendment. It's much simpler.

[spursncowboys]

supporting unlimited wars and unlimited deficits under the guise of tax cuts,

why revert to old cliches? Also why have taxes high when we are going in defecits, by the trillions every year? Either way, we are in the hole. I utcould see if politicians were cutting budgets and en lements. smoke and mirrors

wh: a little ier than normal eh.

[TeyshaBlue]

why revert to old cliches? Also why have taxes high when we are going in defecits, by the trillions every year? Either way, we are in the hole. I utcould see if politicians were cutting budgets and en lements. smoke and mirrors

wh: a little ier than normal eh.

They're cliches for a reason.

And MB's post is spot on. There probably aren't 5 classical conservatives on this board.

[spursncowboys]

what about classical liberals