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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
With due respect, DK, if those were the marching orders that you gave the Congress and they came back with ideas like... - Means test Social Security payments so that only the lowest-income Americans, who had no other means of support, recieved payments.
- Eliminate Medicare insurance for all but those Americans who could afford to pay for their own healthcare insurance.
- Simply stop spending on infrastructure projects.
- Draw down our military and reduce defense expenditures to peacetime levels.
- Or, stop completely any and all payments to foreign countries for aid to their sick, homeless or threatened citizens.
...would you be satisfied? Those types of steps would certainly meet the objective of "...simply stop spending". But would you be satisfied with the result?
We really do need to form some specific opinions on what we expect from our government, what we're willing to give up, and whether we're willing to pay any more for what government provides. |
What is being missed is that i
t does not matter what piecemeal solution is recommended by the general populace. Our Congress is going to do what it d^@%#d well pleases to do - just like it always does. All the spreadsheet proposals in the world have less of an impact than a
75% change-over of who holds the title of Congressperson in
November 2010. Then and only then will there be true concern of what the knowledgeable within the populace recommend and prefer.
We're stuck with increasing deficits, pork-a-la-carte, K Street influence brokering and all of the other chicanery which got us into this mess. They perpetuate the problems and each election promise to "change" things. They never do, and laugh all the way back to office on how gullible we all are. They always seem to make sure the only pain felt is by anyone not involved in their reelection and with more than $10.00 in their wallet.
All of the plans in the world are worthless unless that 9%-Approval-rated Congress sees a flushing...
Until November, 2010 we have to endure. If there is no change in the Congressional roster, we endure longer.