On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:38:21 -0700, Canuck57
wrote:

On 20/02/2011 3:36 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:41:45 -0700,
wrote:

On 19/02/2011 7:09 PM, wrote:

Did you know 74% of Whitehouse staff got a 9% raise last year? Piggies
are having a feast while others suffer.

Cutting half of the DoD budget is a good start but if you ignore
SS/Medicare you will never get a handle on the deficit.

The rest may be good symbolism but they are insignificant.

Agreed. The cuts have to go deep and *no* sacred cows spared. Even
congressional, senate and administration budgets need the big axe.
Duplicated agencies collapsed into one with massively reduced budgets.
What, is there 5 or 7 housing agencies? Why not one that is color
blind? Or why even have a housing agency as states/cities do their own
civic planning?

The cuts will need to be deep to be effective.

But it is also why I am betting they will not do it. Sad to say, US
government bankruptcy is inevitable as I don't believe in politicians
being this "American" to save the country from eventual currency based
bankruptcy. $60 billion is hardly a scratch. Thy need another $1,600
billion. The cuts are not even 5% of what is needed to balance up. A
joke really.

Now if congress refuses the debt/money expansion say for 3 months and DC
government checks bounce to send the message... I will re-assess the
politicians desire to remain solvent.

Until then people need to start thinking of currency as a rapidly
depreciating asset. $1 today is effectively $0.95 next week in
purchasing power.

Fortunately, you have no say in what happens in this great country.

Suits me fine. I realized some time ago I am 1/7,000,000,000 of the
higher order predators on this planet, and by luck being born in North
American and by getting off my arse, I didn't pretty good.

First lesson is you or I are not going to change a damn thing. But how
we work with what is presented to us is key for our own successes.

So how is that Obama sized debt work'in for ya?

Suits me even more. You're about as much a predator as is a
hummingbird. You're a loser and useless human being who sits on his
butt and complains.

You are __certainly__ not going to change anything. I agree with that!