If the GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility, why do they allow their junior staffers to spend profusely?
July 26, 2010 by admin
Filed under Florida politics
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/junior-florida-republican-party-staffer-had-13-million-charged-to-party/1086335
If lower level junior staffers can spend so liberally, can you imagine how the major players spend their contribution money? Is the GOP really the party of fiscal responsibility?
The Republicans haven’t been the Party of Fiscal Responsibility since at least the 1970s. Before Ronald Reagan, Republicans were all about running the government like a business, balancing the budget even if that meant spending cuts, tax increases, or some combination of both of those.
Then along came Reagan with his cheerful idea that we could balance the budget by spending MORE and taxing LESS. It was like one of those fad diets where you lose all the weight you want by eating only chocolate and Mexican food. It had the great charm of never having been tried. But it was tried, and it failed -spectacularly-. In a single term, Reagan doubled the entire pre-existing national debt. Well into his second term, on his way to tripling the debt, Reagan was still insisting that his tax cuts for the rich and corporations would boost the economy enough to pay back the debt he’d incurred. It didn’t even cover the interest on the new debt.
But Republicans believe that you haven’t failed until you admit failure. (This is why they also refuse to admit GW Bush’s egregious failures.)
The GOP is really (and has always been) The Party of Privileged People. Staffers believe themselves entitled to spend lots of party cash, because they deserve it. Just as millionaires deserve to make their capital gains tax-free and corporations believe they have the right to move their mailbox to the Cayman Islands to escape their own tax liabilities.
Traditionally the GOP has always had a lot more campaign money to spend than the Democrats. That’s no longer true but it’s hard for them to change their privileged mindset. 8^)
Because they most certainly are NOT the party of fiscal responsibility. Never were, actually.
Reagan’s most infamous quote was, "DEBT DOESN’T MATTER."
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Gee, one guy and he got canned. Clean up your party sucker, at least we aren’t stashing loot in the freezer.
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Fiscal responsibility of a politicain is not about how he or his stuffers spend his money.
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What do a few junior staffers have to do with GOP public policy ideas? How are they statistically significant (i.e., dispositive) of anything?
The question makes no sense.
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No, they just want to make sure they keep the money where it belongs: with the Power Elite.
The GOP WILL create a fascist state by separating the the distinction of wealth between the wealthy and not wealthy. That is why I will never vote for the GOP, because I don’t want America to become a fascist state.
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No. And further, the repub’s only pretend to be fiscally responsible, when they are out of power…
Whenever, and wherever, they are in power, they spend like crazy.
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And why do they get their "office supplies" at booze stores?
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This is probably not the norm.
By the way, you judge all by the actions of one, there is a word for that.
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"spend so liberally"
you guys are so bad with money you influence the current vernacular. I found that kinda funny.
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The Republicans haven’t been the Party of Fiscal Responsibility since at least the 1970s. Before Ronald Reagan, Republicans were all about running the government like a business, balancing the budget even if that meant spending cuts, tax increases, or some combination of both of those.
Then along came Reagan with his cheerful idea that we could balance the budget by spending MORE and taxing LESS. It was like one of those fad diets where you lose all the weight you want by eating only chocolate and Mexican food. It had the great charm of never having been tried. But it was tried, and it failed -spectacularly-. In a single term, Reagan doubled the entire pre-existing national debt. Well into his second term, on his way to tripling the debt, Reagan was still insisting that his tax cuts for the rich and corporations would boost the economy enough to pay back the debt he’d incurred. It didn’t even cover the interest on the new debt.
But Republicans believe that you haven’t failed until you admit failure. (This is why they also refuse to admit GW Bush’s egregious failures.)
The GOP is really (and has always been) The Party of Privileged People. Staffers believe themselves entitled to spend lots of party cash, because they deserve it. Just as millionaires deserve to make their capital gains tax-free and corporations believe they have the right to move their mailbox to the Cayman Islands to escape their own tax liabilities.
Traditionally the GOP has always had a lot more campaign money to spend than the Democrats. That’s no longer true but it’s hard for them to change their privileged mindset. 8^)
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The GOP USE to be the party of fiscal responsibility.
Now we are just stuck with two spenders, the GOP and the DEMS.
But, I still think I’d rather have the GOP, they are just spend, while the DEMS are TAX + SPEND.
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If the GOP was the party of fiscal responsibility, they would not have had to raise the debt ceiling four times when they were in control of both Congress and the White House
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