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Default Winning elections is not good enough

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

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Socialism is a great ideal as long as someone else pays for it. And when
no one is left to pay for it, they all can share nothing.
 
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