#SUPERFAIL

A few months ago the debt-ceiling debate was the hot button issue throughout the mainstream media. The debate ended when congress came to the agreement that created a "Super Committee" formed with the sole purpose of finding spending cuts in the national budget in order to lower the national deficit.

Sounded like a great compromise. Problem is, the "Super Committee" was comprised of Republicans and Democrats.

I know, nightmare.

Since I began following politics til now, I've always known that in American politics, the political banter and ideological posturing will never go away. Republicans will stand their ground and Democrats will stand theirs, regardless of the effect that their ideologically driven decisions will have on the American public.

So my question is, did anyone really ever think that this "Super Committee" would actually be able to get something done, an actual solution to the national debt?

Of course not. But like everything else in today's politics, we all made believe that we believed in something...


While Republicans sit around claiming that the national debt has an easy solution, less regulation and less spending. Labeling President Obama as a "tax and spend liberal", the Republicans ignore the fact that at this point in their Presidency, Bush had created more regulations than Obama.

And taxes? The average Bush tax-cut for the top 1% is more than the average annual salary for anyone in the bottom 99%. How that helped the middle-class in America is beyond anyone's understanding.

Come to think of it, an Occupy protester summed it up pretty well in a note to the President of the United States:

People are tired of hearing the quick one-liners being thrown between Democrats and Republicans. Not all Republicans are racists trying to destroy the presidency of the first black President, and not all Democrats are baby-killing Nazis.

Political "leaders" .. please grow up.