At this point, the only way to put a leash on the deficit is to take a chainsaw to the budget.
Eliminate entire departments.
Eliminate Dept of Education, HUD, Labor.
Massive layoffs of hundreds of thousands of government employees.
No currently elected official has the balls to do that.
If all the unemployment checks stop, if half the federal employees are laid off, and you know THEY won’t be able to find a job, how are all these people supposed to live?
Truthfully, there is no solution to the mess we’ve allowed the politicians to get us into. We started down hill when we made them celebrities starting with JFK.
Mack has a plan that would work.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2011/July/Rep-Mack-Penny-Plan-Could-Save-Trillions/
It isn’t getting much press.