Face it YOU PEOPLE - you all thought that the Tea Party would cave in, once they made it to DC. Well they didn’t!!!
$100B is still a small number, but the starting point is also very small. If you rule out defense, border patrol, Social Security, Medicare, Interest on the Debt, and several other Constitutional items (like courts), there is not a whole heck of a lot left to cut from.
...and what is left to cut from will FEEL IT, because their cuts will be BIG, percentage-wise. The TEA PARTY means business - they did not come to Washington for the night life and they ARE showing that.
As to the future - the big ticket items of Social Security and Medicare are where the savings MUST come from, but it will be very tough to tell grandpa that he has to get a 32 foot Winnebego, rather than the 37 foot one that he expects to get, with the government chipping in the difference through Social Security...but that is the ONLY way to make some serious inroads into the deficit.
(p.s., we can do the Ron Paul dance and cut the military...but that just gets us back into wars as our supply lines get threatened...so it costs more in the end)
I hate to throw cold water on you, but $100B is peanuts. It should have been $1T for openers. I’ve said it a million times, and the offer is still open: I could balance the federal budget in one hour without a tax increase-—and I would relish every minute of it. The House Republicans are a bunch of pussies.
I hate to throw cold water on you, but $100B is peanuts. It should have been $1T for openers. I’ve said it a million times, and the offer is still open: I could balance the federal budget in one hour without a tax increase-—and I would relish every minute of it. The House Republicans are a bunch of pussies.