Two Points To You Mr. Obama

Soon-to-be-Speaker Of The US House of Representatives (God willing) John Boehner has a press release out that should be taken into very serious consideration:

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today proposed a two-point plan for immediate, bipartisan action to get people working again. Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Boehner said that President Obama’s recent economic proposals fall well short of what is needed to address the two main problems hampering job creation: excessive government spending and the uncertainty Washington Democrats’ policies – especially their massive tax hike – are causing small businesses. The plan House Republicans are setting out today would address both problems, immediately and decisively.
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1 – Pass a bill that cuts non-security related government spending for the next year back to FY 2008 levels.
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2 – Enact a two-year freeze on all current tax rates to stop job-killing tax hikes on families and small businesses.

And, while Ezra Klein might not be impressed, and ABC’s George Stephanopoulis seemed just as much interested in Boehner’s tan than in what Boehner had to say about this two point plan in their interview, Boehner offers up an idea here that Obama and the Left just cannot get their heads around: stop trying to spend your way out of a bad economy.

We can argue the merits and the worthiness of keeping or killing the Bush tax cuts until the cows come home, but there is no avoiding the fact that spending needs to stop. Today. Right now. In suggesting a freeze to ’08 levels, Boehner offers up the bigger idea that would change the entire way Congress works; CUT spending to address the deficit (and it’s really a cut when you consider how much lower the ’08 budget was compared to this current monstrosity).

I leave it to the experts to decide how effective these two particular suggestions might be. Of one thing there can be no doubt; our Political Heroes in Washington need to spend LESS until we can effectively increase revenue (the pros and cons of easing our tax burdens notwithstanding)…not the other way around… the system has broken the American back and must be fixed.

Boehner’s is a far better idea than any of the ones being floated around by Obama, and has a much greater chance of fundamentally changing the way Congress does business.

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