Next month, John Boehner of Ohio becomes Speaker of the House, and he has been tearful about the fact that he has risen to the top from a difficult economic circumstance as a child.
But he may be doing more than being tearful, once he has to deal with the Tea Party favorites that have been elected in many House districts.
Already, the two freshman Black Republican Congressmen, Tim Scott of South Carolina, and Allen West of Florida, are causing grief with their statements and intended actions! š
Scott and West both have spoken up against raising the debt limit when that unpleasant issue occurs in the spring, an action which if pursued by enough other Republicans in the House and Senate would cause the bankruptcy of the government, and lead to a world wide economic collapse.
Both Congressmen-elect talk about cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in spending as an alternative, which it is not, as to cut spending drastically at a time when most cities and states are already in bankruptcy or close to it, would cause human suffering and mass unemployment on a scale unseen since the Great Depression. š
And the fact that these men are from minority background, and refuse to recognize that it is precisely people of their own race who are suffering the most when it comes to unemployment, bankruptcy, home foreclosures, hunger, and poverty in this economic downturn, makes them truly disgraceful, and is a sign of their truly loony and wacky behavior, in many ways worse than that of their white counterparts who are so far to the right that one wonders if they have basic humanity as part of their nature! š
Allen West is 100% right and I would challenge any of you loons to debate him in a public forum! You would get wiped out just like his opponent Ron Klein did. On the contrary to your opinion, not raising the debt limit would show the rest of the world that we are serious about getting our fiscal house in order unlike Greece, Spain etc. etc. Do you loons handle your personal finances like the Federal government? Is your solution for debt borrowing from Peter to pay Paul? My solution is to simply pay Paul.