Obviously, nobody here is bullish on America. (Somebody must be, cuz the DOW’s been on a run. Fools.)
I guess, by “minimize the damage”, I meant NOT maximizing the damage, which the marxists are trying to do.
I could come up with plenty of solutions for the Medicare nightmare. Newt has ideas galore. But the only ideas that would be considered by congress are the bad ones.
A $70 Trillion unfunded liability is easier to default on than a loan. It is not as if we ever borrowed $70 Trillion from the boomers. From their perspective, the $70 Trillion is an asset, but it is asset that will be liquidated by them at a fraction of today’s face value.
cPete, who knows the West is melting.
That might be why BO is pushing so hard for nat’l health care. We can be paid with the service rather than the cash. And I try to be cheerful, but these numbers don’t look like something that can be worked out.
I think the longer we try to fool ourselves, the longer we are going to suffer.Plus, there’s some of us that have poems to write and need that monthly gov’t check so we can discover our inner Longfellow.
parsy, who is palely loitering