SENATOR TOM COLBURN ADMITS GOP ERROR

This morning +Joe Scarborough (MSNBC) showed a clip of +Senator Tom Colburn on the senate floor tearing up a large very expensive poster. He asked the question, “Wouldn’t it be smart if we quit borrowing money?” In my eyes, the man’s an idiot. Sometimes I like to make up words but seldom use them in writing. This time is an exception; Tom Colburn is a clever idiot or a “clidot”.

He knows there are two sides to any budget equation: one side is income and the other side is spending. A countries income is in the form of taxes, which takes many different forms but still taxes. To put the argument in a political context I will point out that he is a Republican innately driven by greed. I am a Democrat innately driven by altruism.  What we have in common is that we both want to live “the good life”. As such, I see the road to “the good life” to mean “we the people” have what we need. He sees the good live as “I and my immediate family” have everything they need “to live the good life”.

This brings up the subject of taxes. I want everyone to have as much as “we can afford”. I know we have to pay for it; therefore, we have to pay taxes. He, as a Republican, wants everything he can afford. He is clever enough to know that he can have more if he doesn’t have pay for it; therefore, he is clever enough to know if he can get us to pay for much of his good life, he can have more.  This is where he, as a Republican, gets us as a country into problems. I have never heard anything out to the Republican mouth but cut taxes. Grover Norquist leads a group that has as their objective “to make the government so small they can drag it into the bathroom and drown it”. They are willing to destroy the county so they do not have to pay taxes—they refer to this a being fiscally responsible. They not only want all the nice things money can buy but have them and to pay for them. They want to spend money but do not want to pay taxes while they enjoy living in the United States. The only way to achieve their goal is to borrow money and drive the country into dept, blame the Democrats, and are live “the good life” while they are doing it. This is what makes Tom Colburn and people like him “clidots”.

It is not the Democrats that refuse to raise taxes; it is the Republicans. Social Security does not cause the national dept; Social Security is a Liberal program that collects money from the people to pay its own bills. It is not going broke; it is not a tax liability. Obamacare is based on the insurance principle. If everyone pays for health insurance, it cost everyone less. Republicans lie and tell people that these programs are unfair. The only people for whom these programs are unfair are rich people who do not have to worry about retirement or the cost of health care they can afford. Just like public schools, it is unfair to Mitt Romany to have to pay taxes to support public schools when he can send his sons to private schools. Nevertheless, some rich families do send their son and daughters to public schools but complain about the schools, complain about the taxes, but still complain about the quality of the schools. They drive the schools to borrow money then complain about the taxes collect to pay the school bonds.

My message to Senator Tom Colburn is pay for what you are enjoying. Pay for disaster relief by supporting FEMA, pay for clean air by paying for EPA, pay for inter state highway that brings tourists to your state, pay for FAA when you fly twice a week, pay for SEC to investigate Colorado MD’s who submit fraudulent claim to Medicare, and to pay your own salary.  The problem is people who tear up expensive posters made by government employees paid for by tax money collected by government employees when there is not enough money because you do not want to pay taxes; you do not want to pay for what you get.  You are a “clidot”, however, he did admit Republicans cause the problem by borrowing money and cutting taxes at the same time when he said, “Its about time ‘we’ quite borrowing money.” You cannot cut past spending because but you can raise taxes in the future—that is the real world.   

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