On to the next manufactured crisis

In this article Herman Cain wonders if Americans have forgotted what it's like for grownups to run the government, and do things like budgets. I agree with him after watching Obama, Reid, Pelosi, the Democrats and the Republican "leadership".

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Bruce

'Well we’ve gotten through a tiny, 2.3 percent reduction in the scheduled growth of federal spending – the big nothing burger called “sequester” that the political class and the media tried to portray as “massive” and “enormous” and “severe” and whatever else.
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This is all taken care of, once a year, in this strange thing called a budget, which the Constitution says we are supposed to have, but which Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have not bothered to pass or even propose since 2009. Their preferred method of governing is a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, make-it-up-as-you-go-along game. They get by with a series of constantly expiring continuing resolutions, complete with a never-ending array of temporary tax measures and massive borrowing that is always bumping us up against the statutory debt limit.
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So we have a government that does not budget and does not govern, but keeps itself busy with the constant task of managing the crises it knowingly and willingly manufactures. All the while the media covers the intrigue, but misses the larger point that this is not how responsible people do their jobs.'