Until republicans grow the cahones to buck grover norquist and raise taxes on the wealthy we will not get out of the deficit delemma. Spending cuts also need to be enacted, but many of those are already scheduled, not to mention the huge savings from the scaledowns in Iraq and Afghanastan, while more need to come. Ronnie and his boys were smart enough to recognize a problem and fix it. Neither the republicans or the democrats are going to give in until they see give from the other side and ole grover has the right by the balls.