Short Term Fix On Budget ?

 Is This Anyway to Run a Railroad ?

The President proposes another short term fix, why? We have short term fixed for a long, long time now.  He says it is just until a budget deal can be reached. How can you have a budget deal when there is no budget submitted from Senate that can be discussed. Not one budget has been submitted to the House in four years although it is required by law to do so. So far the submission of a budget from the President is late. The President has submitted budgets that have been so trounced by the Senate as to have received zero votes from either party. That is how unrealistic they have been.  How important can the implementation of good permanent fix for our economy and the reduction of spending be for him. When he continues to be satisfied with short term fixes. He has already said that we do not have a spending problem. A sentiment echoed by his nominee for Treasury, Mr Lew.  Short term fixes do nothing but prolong the pain. It is like the relief of a fistula. Draining the abscess but never getting to the root.

His latest call to arms is the scare tactic that sequestration will kick in. Resulting in across the board cuts that will also effect military budgets. Leaving us in the lurch in comparison to other countries like China and Russia who have increased spending in that area of the budget.  National security ending up on the short end of the stick.  Potentially leaving us in a dire situation.  Gee that is quite a turn around for the Democratic party who have always complained that too much was spent on the military. What is the problem Mr. President ? You should be happy as a clam that the military is being cut after all that is what you have been about for the past 3 years. We know that it certainly must satisfy your base who have clamoring for years on the subject. If indeed you are so worried about the defense budget just make a deal to take that out of the equation when instituting sequestration ? I am sure that is possible with Republicans who feel that way as well.

Mr. President you can not keep on throwing the blame upon others. Your leadership on the matter is of the utmost importance. You have shown that compromise is not one of your strong points. You should look up the word compromise. You think it means my way or the highway as you certainly alluded to in your inauguration speech. You remind me of someone who wants to kill someone and keeps on giving them small doses of arsenic. Until they are dead.