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Subscribe to RSS In a Politico op-ed, Tim Pawlenty argues that President Obama needs to make sacrifices to whittle down the size of the budget deficit. “Obama and Congress should:
1. Set clear priorities but cut almost everything else. Not everything government does is equally important. When faced with a budget shortfall in Minnesota, we considered the importance of programs. We decided to protect funding for the most important ones: the National Guard, veterans’ support programs, public safety and K-12 schools.”
“Nearly everything else has been cut. Last year, we cut overall spending in real terms for the first time in the state’s 150-year history.”
“2. Reform out-of-control entitlements. By far, the biggest long-term driver of the federal debt is entitlement spending, including Social Security and Medicare. These programs are going to have to be changed. And despite Beltway rhetoric, it can be done.”
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Timmy is lying. Our schools, which used to be the pride of Minnesota are floundering, particularly those here in outstate Minnesota. What Timmy has done is cut Local Govt Aid, pushed that back to the cities, as a result property taxes are on the rise, and all the schools in our area our attempting to get votes from locals to try to bring money in for operating capital. The schools have cut everywhere that they can, programs are being lost, some are looking at 4 day weeks to save on transportation costs. (Our rural districts are quite large and cover lots of miles.) Timmy has decimated Minnesota, not for the good of the citizens of the state, but to further his own ambitions. It will be a cakewalk for anyone to run against him for President, there is too much data available from Minnesota.
Ofcourse Tiny Tim Pawlenty is asking anyone else but himself to make sacrifices because he hates America and has no intention of sacrificing personally like by paying higher taxes even though he could afford it. The cut spending crowd wants to balance the budget on the backs of those in need but wants to continue the tax cut welfare for the rich and greedy that has proven it does not create jobs, just larger budget deficits and an ever increasing Reagan Bush Bush National Debt.
It's the rich and greedy who have all of the entitlements and they keep trying to fool people into thinking that they must retain all of their entitlements to make so much while paying so little. The repugnant ones are a bunch of Leona Helmsleys who think that paying taxes is for little people, not to mention making sacrifices being only for the little people.
The repugnant ones just want to force the people who likely will vote for Democrats to sacrifice so they'll then blame the Democrats for forcing their own supporters to sacrifice. The repugnant ones don't want their supporters to sacrifice. Oh wait the repugnant ones have all those old geezers collecting Social Security and Medicare supporting them don't they? Time for AARP to wise up the old geezers that it's the repugnant ones who want to take away their Social Security and Medicare.
Pawlenty is yet another Republican only thinking about himself. MN has suffered under his "leadership," and it's great that his time as governor is almost over. As with most Republicans, don't believe a word Pawlenty says.