Monday, September 12, 2011

Spoke Too Quickly

I'm sorry.  I must admit, when I wrote the previous post I hadn't yet read all the way through the material that the White House graciously provided for us.  Here are the details about how the act will be paid for:

5. FULLY PAID FOR AS PART OF THE PRESIDENT’S LONG-TERM DEFICIT REDUCTION PLAN. 
To ensure that the American Jobs Act is fully paid for, the President will call on the Joint Committee to come up with additional deficit reduction necessary to pay for the Act and still meet its deficit target. 
The President will, in the coming days, release a detailed plan that will show how we can do that while achieving the additional deficit reduction necessary to meet the President’s broader goal of stabilizing our debt as a share of the economy.
That, my friends, is how f***ing stupid they think we are.  

The "President's long-term deficit reduction plan"?  What?  I didn't know he had one of those.  It's all good then.  But wait!  It says it's his plan in the header, but then the very first sentence says that the President will ask the Joint Committee to find a way to pay for it.  The next sentence then switches back to the President doing it.  Which is it?  Does it matter?  No.  Because it will never happen.

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