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Keyser Söze

On 8/10/15 2:27 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:36:07 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

The democrats have nothing but unrealistic "soak the rich" schemes and
spending borrowed money on programs that are going to bankrupt the
country so I am not really happy about the future of my kids either
way.
You folks like to say the GOP does not have a plan. Can you explain
the democratic plan to keep us from going down the road Greece took?
I agree we should raise taxes but if you are only going to do it on
the 1%, you are not going to get the three quarters of a trillion
extra we need.
By the end of FY15 the US debt will be over $18 trillion and total
state and federal debt will be over $21 trillion.
That does not include the unfunded liability of SS and Medicare.
I have not seen anyone but Rand Paul even mention it and nobody is
taking it seriously.

We spend $600 billion annually on the books for the military and who
knows how many billions hidden and off the books. We should make serious
efforts to transition military personnel to non-defense military jobs,
and cutting at least $50 billion a year off that bloated budget with
half earmarked for debt reduction and half earmarked for needed programs
that rebuild out country and put people to work.

So you are voting for Bernie? He is the only one with a plan anywhere
close to that.
I have no problem with pivoting some of the defense budget to other
things but it is the biggest "jobs" program in the federal government
so you can't just cut it. (politically)
It is one industry that is not likely to be moved offshore., Every
military contract ends up being a jobs plan for as many districts as
they can ram in there. That is why military appropriations bills are
thousands of pages long with hundreds of seemingly unrelated pork
barrel amendments. A very large part of "defense" is really just
defending incumbent congressmen.
Even "foreign aid" is largely a jobs program since most of the aid is
actually military hardware made here and sent there.

Sure, it can be done, if you earmark half the savings for needed
programs that rebuild the country and put people to work.