Democrats show they don’t get it

As predictably as November rain, our senior senator blamed “the refusal of the Republicans to accept a tax increase as part of the deal to cut the deficit.” (Tuesday article, “Super failure: Deficit-cutting panel gives up.”) It makes one curious as to where the senator might have been when the GOP members proposed eliminating tax loopholes which would have sent $500 billion back to the government.

This would have mainly effected those “1 percenters” that have the Occupy crowd’s knickers in a knot. I refer to the 1 percent of the taxpayers who pay approximately half the total personal federal taxes now. The same 1 percent who, if all their personal wealth went to the federal treasury, it wouldn’t realistically make a dent in the current national debt.

When the senator says we should elect more people to Congress who “are willing to work for shared sacrifice and who will resist the GOP mantra of no new taxes” she clearly is admitting that she and her Democratic colleagues simply “don’t get it.” What she’s apparently saying is that we should have a single-party, i.e. Democratic, Congress that can and will continue its agenda of spending this country into oblivion unhampered by any fiscal restraints or political balances. That’s precisely the liberal ideology that has brought this country to its current state of affairs.

Lee Fowble

Edmonds