Discuss Question 28
28. FISCAL WISDOM: Elected officials should rescind and reject any pledges to special interest groups that would restrict them from considering comprehensive reform proposals, including pledges that prevent them from reforming social insurance programs (i.e. Medicare, Social Security) or from supporting higher federal revenues.
ANSWER: True – The existence of special interest pledges has been a prime contributor to gridlock in Washington. Pledges exist on both sides of the political aisle and ideological divide. They include those that pledge not to raise taxes, and those that pledge not to touch benefits for Social Security and Medicare. We know that both more revenue and less social insurance spending must be part of the solution, therefore pledging not to consider these is irresponsible. All elected officials should rescind and reject any pledges to special interest groups that restrict them from making the tough choices necessary to put our nation’s fiscal house in order.
Politicians break their promises all the time and we don’t respect them for it. Sticking to a promise is a good thing. If someone doesn’t intend to stick to his/her promise, then they should make the pledge in the first place.
The fidelity to pledges is an honorable thing. One of the few that some Congressmen can hold up. Clearly voters must be educated enough to know what is a good pledge and what is a bad pledge. The key is to not re-elect incumbents. The same guys play the same games year after year. New people and parties are the answer. Ten parties would provide better much better government and remove gridlock from the two entrenched current parties that nobody belongs to directly.
We Americans like to know what our candidates stand for when we vote for them in elections and we like to have them keep their word when elected. Do you have a problem with that?
In recent years Republican elected to National Office have refused to work with Obama though he isn’t much of liberal on economic issues. You have you overlooked that fact.
Obama is one of those “Clinton” neo-liberals “let’s work with wall street”
types. Obama does not have a personal feel of the lower classes of America. He shares that lack of the feel of a majority of Americans with you.