Republicans Shooting Themselves In Foot Per Poll

Who was it that said democracy will work until enough people realize they can vote themselves a raise?

Something like that has been occurring in government for a long time by both current political parties and every party that ever existed.

Sides are taken, and there are real differences in world views, most based on at least some sense of justice and sustainability. Some not.

But all sides lean further out their ideological seesaw and become more extreme so that the other side feels it has to slide a bit further out on the teeter totter also to keep from being immobilized as the one dangling precariously in the air and then getting voted out of office.

What’s the answer? The only immediate practical answer is compromise, which is seldom really the best solution as it usually means ones side lets the other side have something it really wants whether it is good for the nation or not, in exchange for getting something it wants, whether it is good for the nation or not.

“While Americans see sacrifice as inevitable for the middle-class, the only sacrifice to win majority support is a tax on those too wealthy to be considered middle-class,” says J. Ann Selzer, president of Des Moines, Iowa-based Selzer & Co., which consults with Bloomberg News on polls.

So what is a voter to do? Support the chosen “club” or ideology to the extreme?

The answer we can hope for is for the following quote however paraphrased to be true in a time frame that matters:

Americans always do the right thing, after trying everything else first.

Republicans understandably want to keep themselves and Democrats from getting more money from anyone, knowing that such a line of credit into the future leads to too much spending.

Democrats understandably want to keep their promises to their base and that usually means more money for something their voters will remember them by.

Severe cutbacks in the short run will mean more joblessness. Insufficient cutbacks soon will mean we will speak Greek in the long run.

Raise taxes, cut spending and then raise a little Cain so we can later lower taxes and spend where it is productive. Per Wise Man.