Ideological Shifts in Budget?
01/03/09 21:03 Filed in: Obama
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this: http://www.truthout.org/030109A
"Republicans and Democrats alike say the budget request, which seeks $3.6 trillion for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, marks the biggest ideological shift in Washington since the dawn of the Reagan administration."
The shift refers to no longer spending money to cut taxes for the rich and to make sure that, just like the rest of us, the defense department has to keep to a budget. It is a shift from cut taxes and spend republicans, like Reagan, Bush and Bush jr, to a tax and spend. But maybe that is what we need right now.
What worries me is that Obama needs to make sure that at the end of ten years, the deficit stops growing. We need to be able to keep to a budget as a nation. And I'm all for expanding right now in order to grow jobs, which means growing a tax base. But that h as to work. And I'm very worried about leaving our children and grandchildren with a debt, because we were unwilling to control our appetites.
In the end, then, the ideological shift isn't far enough. Obama differs from the Republicans and the majority of democrats in the priorities he sets, priorities with which I agree to a significant degree. But let's take a serious look at the market and how it works in our world, the way it contorts our ideas and our desires. This must be a fundamental move away from market capitalism as is to a more localized economy which supports the small farmer, the family, the community, the center of a secure society. Ideology must shift farther before we loose to big business and go down with them.
"Republicans and Democrats alike say the budget request, which seeks $3.6 trillion for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, marks the biggest ideological shift in Washington since the dawn of the Reagan administration."
The shift refers to no longer spending money to cut taxes for the rich and to make sure that, just like the rest of us, the defense department has to keep to a budget. It is a shift from cut taxes and spend republicans, like Reagan, Bush and Bush jr, to a tax and spend. But maybe that is what we need right now.
What worries me is that Obama needs to make sure that at the end of ten years, the deficit stops growing. We need to be able to keep to a budget as a nation. And I'm all for expanding right now in order to grow jobs, which means growing a tax base. But that h as to work. And I'm very worried about leaving our children and grandchildren with a debt, because we were unwilling to control our appetites.
In the end, then, the ideological shift isn't far enough. Obama differs from the Republicans and the majority of democrats in the priorities he sets, priorities with which I agree to a significant degree. But let's take a serious look at the market and how it works in our world, the way it contorts our ideas and our desires. This must be a fundamental move away from market capitalism as is to a more localized economy which supports the small farmer, the family, the community, the center of a secure society. Ideology must shift farther before we loose to big business and go down with them.