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Originally Posted by Lobo1186
I agree to an extent. but we gotta start somewhere. if we can at least get the idea of spending cuts rooted that will be a start.
as far as who knows what they are doing... i doubt anyone does we haven't been in this situation in our lifetimes.
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if you are going to start, start for real. If you fool everyone into thinking that taking a half inch chip or two out of a 40 ton boulder will actually lead to a legitimate cost cutting process that sustains and snowballs then you are not one bit better off than had you done nothing.
Ten years later people will say, "Gee we're bankrupt and in default? What about those $500 billlion in spending cuts over the last decade?"
"ummm that's how much the deficit went up by just this year"
"oh...well that sucks..."
A real start would involve a detailed plan on how the biggest parts of the boulder will be dismantled (social security, medicare, defense) or shifted to private sholulders. That's the crucial part. We've seen NOTHING of the sort. Until that occurs we only have phoney starts. Time for people to start governing like one termers. It's really that simple every Congress person should take a one term pledge. That will part the the pretenders from the believers in a snap of the fingers.
We've all seen this "this time we're serious" movie a dozen times. Show me the money not the pocket lint.