The August 2nd "budget crisis" deadline looms and you can almost hear the JAWS music in the background. One day we hear there is a deal imminent from the Gang of Six, then there is a deal with the Three Stooges (Boehner, Reid, and Obama), then, wait, Jay Carney says there is no deal.

The Republicans want no tax increases and the Dems love tax increases on the millionaires and billionaires. We hear spending "cuts" of trillions over ten years and, of course, most of these cuts come in the back years and they never occur. The only cuts that matter are this year's cuts-- future cuts never materialize because of the phoney budget manipulations that go on every year.

Nothing seems to be working but what do you expect from people who created this crisis? Why should we expect people like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, and McConnell to fix the budget problems that they are largely responsible for? These people have been in power for decades and watched all this spending go unchecked.

Maybe they should draft a deficit reduction bill of over 2,000 pages, not read it, and pass it at midnight, August 2nd. Then after it is passed we can, to paraphrase Pandemic Pelosi , "find out what is in the bill."

The blowhards have argued over everything expect CUT FIRST, TAX LATER. We always seem to pass a Tax First, Cut Later bill, but have never tried the opposite. Let's pass a bill that cuts spending in the first year with no tax increases, but only increases taxes in the second year and beyond  if the deficits grow bigger.

CUT FIRST, TAX LATER...let's give it a shot, Mr. Obama. It sure beats not sending out social security checks to grandma and grandpa!



It Appears the Behind the Scenes Negotiations are Not Going Well