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Spin Zone / Re: Americans should know that there are adults in the room
« on: September 10, 2018, 11:26:29 AM »6 miles a day. I'd make it seven, but then I'd be emulating you, something I never want to do. Then again, I know you don't walk, you'd get lost on a straight dead-end street.
The problem with deficit reduction is the solution is easily envisioned and difficult to enact. So-called entitlement spending has to come down along with military spending, those are the big drivers. Conservatives will decry reductions in military spending as making us less safe, and to a small degree that's true. What's more important is our military has a proven track record of excellence. They will not be able to maintain that in an era of austerity. That said, poor people can't afford to be safe, and we're a people deeply in debt.
Liberals will decry any reduction in medicare or social security, but they really need to come about and soon. The problem is the politician who cuts these popular programs will quickly become an ex-politician, and they all know it. Thus both D's and R's dance around the issue without addressing it. I can tell you that the token reductions to the discretionary program put forth by the R's won't cut it. Raising taxes and cutting military and benefits are the only way its going to happen.
My big fear is it will never happen. the politicians will just keep kicking the can down the road, and we'll wind up being a much larger much more dangerous economic problem than Greece. I only hope I don't live to see it, but I strongly suspect I will.
Wow, actually agree with just about all of this.
Unfortunately the system isn't setup to decrease power or decrease spending.