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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Now Anyone Who Disagrees With Someone On The Senate Floor Should Be Kicked Out? Foolish!

Former Sen. Alan Simpson: Throw Cruz Out of Senate

By Greg Richter | Monday, 21 Dec 2015 05:29 PM

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Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson tells Newsmax TV he is "spooked" by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and that he should be removed from his job.

"Anybody that calls a majority leader a liar on the floor of the U.S. Senate ought to be canned and thrown out of the Senate," Simpson said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."

Cruz's comments came after the Senate passed the $1.1 trillion budget deal against the wishes of conservative members of the Republican Party, including Cruz.

"What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that [contradicts] not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, [it] was a simple lie," Cruz told his colleagues. "We know now that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment, that he is willing to say things that he knows are false. That has consequences for how this body operates."

Cruz may be leading in the presidential polls in Iowa, Simpson said, but he noted that Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum have done well there too, only to go down "like a flaming comet."

On a separate issue, Simpson said GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump shouldn't hold his breath waiting for an apology from Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

"She's never going to do anything," Simpson said. "She spent her whole life not apologizing to anybody. Why would you start now at this age?"

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Will Government Solve The Debt Crisis Before It Occurs?

In the following article, former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyoming) and one of the Chairmen of the Simpson-Bowles commission that President Obama did not listen to, says that neither candidate or party will address the approaching financial crisis. He is so right. We will hear sound bites but not legislation will be instituted. Instead, both parties are going to push the string as long as they can until they have used up every bit of capital they can put their hands on and then the world will come down on their heads. Only then will they find the guts to make the decisions that should be made now.

To make any moves now to prevent the catastrophe will be politically disastrous as the other party will claim their opposition is attacking poor people. In reality, it will be the poor people who will be hurt worst by a crisis. According to Simpson, “Where you talk about the most vulnerable in society and the odd thing is those are the people who are going to be hurt the worst by not doing anything.”

This article is good but also bad. It is frustrating to see that we know what we need to do but due to politics, we cannot or will not.

Maybe it is time to look for that "cave in the Adirondacks!" However, we would prefer something more nearby to which we could escape when the "s" hits the fan! Any ideas?

Conservative Tom

Fiscal Commissioner on Debt Crisis: 'You Better Get Yourself a Cave in the Adirondacks'

By Elizabeth Harrington

October 2, 2012

Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, co-chairmen of the president's fiscal commission, at the National Press Clun in Washington, D.C. (AP photo)

(CNSNews.com) – Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) said Tuesday the first presidential debate will “be the biggest tap dance since Fred Astaire,” and that neither political party in Washington is willing to tackle the country’s fiscal problems.

"You better get yourself a cave in the Adirondacks," he mirthfully said when asked what would happen if politicians did not deal with the debt.

Simpson, who along with Erksine Bowles co-chaired the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, appeared at George Washington University for an event on the upcoming election and the approaching fiscal cliff.

After the event CNSNews.com asked Simpson what he expects to see during the first debate on Wednesday evening.

“I think it’ll be the biggest tap dance since Fred Astaire,” he said. “There’ll be marvelous dancing and oh, it’ll be a joy.”

CNSNews.com then asked, “You mentioned that the debt, that would be one of the big things that you would like to see out of the debate, why do you think there hasn’t been much discussion about this $16 trillion debt in this election?”

“It’s because it’s too sensitive, and when you have people say these people are more interested in the debt than they are human beings, and on and on it goes,” Simpson said. “Where you talk about the most vulnerable in society and the odd thing is those are the people who are going to be hurt the worst by not doing anything.”

When asked which candidate he believes would better approach the debt and deficit, Simpson said neither President Obama or his challenger Mitt Romney would fix the problems.

“If they were going to deal with it, they would’ve done it,” he said. “I mean there’s a campaign going on, and neither one of them are dealing with it in any positive way that gets anywhere. They both talk about it, and they both like Bowles-Simpson and you get into specifics, and they’re gone.

“So they’re not going to deal with it – it doesn’t matter which candidate or candidate for Senate or the House,” Simpson said. “They’re not going to deal with these issues because they will get eaten by rats, by the AARP [American Association of Retired Persons] and Grover Norquist and the realtors.

"everybody out there got hit. We hit everybody,” he said of his deficit plan. “And that’s the only way this can work, and when you have 105 groups out there to rip up anything you do, then they’re not going to do anything. They’re not going to touch it.”

CNSNews.com then asked, “What happens if nothing is done?”

“Well, you better get yourself a cave in the Adirondacks and learn how to eat watery gruel and herbs and berries,” he said. “No, I tell you what’ll happen. The markets will shoot the hole through us.”

“And at that point – and you don’t want it to happen, and I don’t – and they don’t care about Democrats or Republicans or presidents. They care about their money,” Simpson added. “And they’ll say if any country is stupid enough to borrow $16 trillion bucks in the hole, then we’re just stupid enough—smart enough, maybe—to loan you some more money.

“And when they do that, then our country will take a real hit, and inflation will go up and interest rates will go up, and you and your young people your age will be the ones most affected, while the seniors and the money guys, most of them, will take good care of themselves,” he said.

The Simpson-Bowles National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, appointed by President Obama, proposed a six-part plan to “put our nation back on a path to fiscal health, promote economic growth, and protect the most vulnerable among us.”

Taken as a whole, the plan, which was released in December 2010, would have achieved nearly $4 trillion in deficit reduction through 2020, more than any effort in the nation’s history.