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LEAD!!! Spending is the problem. So this is simple. Implement the Paul Mac Penney plan. Freeze the budget. No increases, no baseline budget nonsense. The next year cut spending one percent from the frozen budget, across the board. Shared sacrifice. What could be more fair? Keep this up until the budget is in surplus and the debt is coming down. Use continuous process improvement methodologies to get the bureaucrats to find waste. Give them say ten percent of what they save. Bet we find a lot of waste. This approach is workable, reasonable, and can capture the imagination of the public. The rest of the beltway nonsense is complete bovine excrement. If the dims won't buy it we tried.

If the pubbies don't have enough spine to really fight for this then the next best thing is to do nothing. The dims made us put in the bush tax cut expiration. Make them own the tax increases that result. When the time for the debt ceiling increases comes don't raise it. Period. Better to get it over with sooner than later. We'll be in less debt that way.

Implementing the Paul Mac plan will save the nation through the fairness of shared sacrifice. The second option may save the nation but there will be great civil unrest. Allowing the dims to have their way will certainly destroy the nation and probably a good portion of the population. Washington has brought the nation to the brink of ruin. If we cross the brink Washington will be held accountable.