The Communist Balanced Budget

IdaBlue attacks the Club for Growth for a post in which they responded to MoveOn.org’s agenda:

A living wage for all

Global leadership through diplomacy

Verifiable, accurate elections

High quality education for all

Balanced federal budget

Health care for all

Publicly funded elections

Preserve our natural resources

Energy independence: clean, renewable sources

Restored constitutional rights

In response to MoveOn’s ideas, Andy Roth writes:

LThat’s one crazy, whacked-out list. Notice how the last one conflicts with several of the other ones? These liberals/socialists/progressives/communitarians crack me up.

Alan chimes in:

If Sali agrees with the CFG – and for $483,000 I’m sure he does – he has aligned himself with an extremist group that believes a balanced federal budget is a whacked-out, communist idea.

First of all, I think Alan has taken them out of context. He didn’t say, “Every item on that agenda is a communist plot.” No, he said that as a list it was crazy and whacked out. What’s so crazy about it?

You’re going to give everyone health care, you’re going to spend more money on education (that’s what the left means whenever they talk of doing anything on that topic), then on top of that you’re going to publicly fund elections. How exactly do you balance the budget particularly when you go ahead and use the force of government to control wages which actually kills the economy? Its non-sensical, its whacked out when taken as a total package. Then you go to the fact that the federal government is given no authority in the Constitution to set living wages, give everyone on health care, or fund elections. How exactly do you restore the constitution when your entire plan violates it?

As proof, that the Club doesn’t believe that a balanced budget is communist, please note that they’re backing less spending. Now, why would they help the commies?

UPDATE: Serephin at 43rd State Blues chimed in, adding nothing but constructive except to show respect for diversity by attacking Bill Sali’s disability. I remember Alan saying “Dogging Sali with a dunce cap and idiot label, and using his statements about being brain damaged, are not the type of politics I’d like Dems to engage in. But they might be politics they might have to engage in.” Apparently, Democrats have to because their just mean-spirited.

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