Humboldt Republican Women: None of the candidates got much of a chance to explain their non-verbal responses, but the answer is that this question is a political non-sequitur. We could pass a deal that had a 100:1 ratio of cuts and increases and it would still not address the reason why the US is rapidly expanding its debt, and why we are headed for a fiscal trainwreck within a generation.

Friday, August 19, 2011

None of the candidates got much of a chance to explain their non-verbal responses, but the answer is that this question is a political non-sequitur. We could pass a deal that had a 100:1 ratio of cuts and increases and it would still not address the reason why the US is rapidly expanding its debt, and why we are headed for a fiscal trainwreck within a generation.

◼ Why the 10:1 cuts-to-revenue-increases question is a policy non-sequitur