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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (68066)	4/23/2018 3:20:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361308

Geez Tim! Don't you get what has happened in our country and that now that republicans are in charge THEY have to do this. Entitlement reform? Sure, ever since the coming mess has been clear its legitimately been on whoever is in charge to deal with it. Of course they've uniformly failed if they even bothered to try (which they mostly did not). In a sense it isn't true that Republicans are in charge. Sure they have majorities in both houses and the presidency. If they were monolithic they would be in charge (subject to judicial and constitutional limitations and the various requirements for super-majorities), but they are in many ways more scattered individuals than a unified party. That's become more and more true of both parties over the years. The parties aren't really that powerful anymore. But still there the closest thing we have to a group that is currently in charge and as such it properly falls to them to deal with the problem of current and esp. planned future overspending, and your right they have utterly failed to do so (again to the extent they have even tried which the majority of those in power nor have not), instead they have contributed to the problem.