YouCut Me Up
The Republican Party is ingeniously allowing ordinary people like you and me to vote on the government expenses we want them to cut. They’re calling it “YouCut.”
Get it? It’s like “youTube.”
Only dumber.
There’s only a few minor problems with this gimmick — much in the way Lawrence Taylor has only a few minor problems.
First, the Republicans don’t have the votes in Congress to even call for a coffee break — let alone to actually cut something.
Second, even if you added up every item on their ballot, it would still only amount to 0.16% of the $3.8 trillion-dollar federal budget.
How stupid do the Republicans think we are?
Don’t answer that. It’s a trick question.
As there seems to be a few items left off their ballot, perhaps we should add a few programs; or, should I say, cut a few programs:
- Wars ($130 billion)
- Department of Homeland Security ($42.7 billion)
- DEA ($2.3 billion)
- YouCut (priceless)
And this is just a start. We could add Fannie Mae, the FCC, and about half the federal departments; and if you keep adding, suddenly we’re approaching a balanced budget. With maybe even a little left over to help some people.
How’s that for a gimmick?
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It’s great ideas like YouCut that show the country that the Republicans have learned their lesson and are ready to take over the government again.
Where is Eric Holder on that list? We could cut him. As Attorney general he has ben out bad mouthing a law that he has never read. Lets cut Napolitano too, she is too busy trying to cover up her incompetence to actually do anything about the southern border problem…… oh I could go on…. How dumb does Obamas administration think we are anyway?
Very good piece. I was thinking about writing on it when I saw Cantor out flaunting this about last week.
Want to know what is interesting about it?
The Democrats, as evidenced by their passing the Stimulus bill and Health Care Reform against the will of the majority have effectively abandoned all claims to the root word of their party’s name, by being extremely un-democratic.
On the other hand, the GOP, with this effort, seems determined to abandon the ideals of the root word of their party’s name, complaining about the functioning of a representative Republic while Dems are in charge, and doing something that smacks of populist democracy here…
It’s like a Chinese fire drill, with the GOP jumping out of the driver’s seat, and the Dems grabbing the wheel. Just wish one of the two parties would steer the moving vehicle so we didn’t drive off the coming cliff.
@Mike
Thanks for the comments.
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