Ken Buck has no solutions and neither does the GOP

by: Fong

Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 23:01:00 PM MST

Ken Buck can't seem to get it together and answer this question. How udderly shocking.

From the Durango Herald

DH: What should be cut in the federal budget?

Buck: The National Endowment for the Arts. The National Endowment for Humanities. Subsidies for many programs - we've got to look at privatizing some programs. We've got to look at departments like the Department of Education and ask really what they should be doing and what we need to return to local control. The Department of Energy's mission was to make America less reliant on foreign energy. That mission was set in 1977. We're more reliant on foreign energy than we were before. So we've got to evaluate whether agencies and departments are really doing the job that we've set out for them.

So, anything that enriches society beyond a metric and has a greater potential to encourage people to question what's going on with their failing power structures, must be privatized?

But let's never forget that one of the most glaring examples of when a Dept of the govt was privatized, it was horribly expensive and outrageously expensive-- but the lobbyists and their respective industries made out like bandits.

BAD IDEA, KEN.

Plus, the Colorado Independent points out that the programs Ken cites are less than 2% of the discretionary budget. That's not significant.

Moving on,

DH: Your GOP opponent has set, 'Let's abolish the Department of Education.' It sounds like you're not going that far.

Buck: I'm not willing to turn the lights off on Day One (emphasis added). We got into this mess over 60 years, and we're not going to get out of this mess in the first 10 days of the next Congress. I think it is important to evaluate in a responsible way how we return more educational control to local governments. At some point, if we don't need to spend federal money on education, that would be great, but we've got to transition in a responsible way.

PHEW! He's not going to single-handedly shut off the lights at the Dept of Ed on day one! What a relief.

Oh wait, he can't do that. That's unrealistic. This whole interview is evidence he has no plan, that he's just catering to the loud, racist base of the Republican Party. Meh. He's not interesting in the least. Gimme a real challenge. Show me something for which these people advocate that's at all effective. NEXT.