On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:14:30 -0400, DK wrote:


An accountant won't help. An economist will.

Whose economist? Obama's or somebody else's?
I don't think they'll listen to the Freidmans or Greenspans any more.
That "trickle down" bull****, and selling off America's jobs to
foreigners for Wall Street profits got us where we are.
In deep debt to foreigners.
An accountant knows better than that.

This was a response to
your statement: "Gov can't go bankrupt until all the folks money is
taxed away. We ain't even close to that."

An accountant will balance the books, and if you're spending more than
you have coming in, tell you to either cut spending or raise revenues
or go bankrupt.
An accountant won't talk politics. He'll talk numbers.
The gov won't cut spending.
The folks want their social security.
The folks want their medicare.
The folks want cheaper health care.
The folks want unemployment comp when they can't find a job.
The folks determine if a pol stays in office.
"Let them eat cake" doesn't go over well with the folks.
So that leaves raising revenue, which is taxes.
This ain't politics, and it ain't rocket science.
It's simple numbers. It's always the simple numbers in the end.
And we're close to the end.
Might be all wrong about that, though.
I'm often wrong.

--Vic