Good for Chambliss. It’s more than OBVIOUS, even on this site, that Americans are not ready to make the sacrifices needed to get spending down to the level of present taxation.
Even here, older people will not EVEN CONSIDER reforming their welfare programs (i.e., Social Security and Medicare), if it might mean one less dime of goodies for them.
Well, I see my kids being hit with over a trillion dollars of new debt every year. I also know that my 401k’s and IRAs are about to get seized by the government to pay for these goodies. So if Saxby is willing to start having people (including conservatives here) start paying for the level of services that they DEMAND, then I wish him the best of luck.
Social security is the epitome of a Ponzi scheme and, as such, is immoral. Whether we want to or not, we will get rid of both it and MediCare (Obamacare). We are bankrupt! Do the math. Programs like them are unsustainable - and a key element of Socialism. They seem fantastic until we “run out of other people’s money,” to quote Margaret Thatcher.
Your views are characterstic of a RINO, or maybe a CINO.
What is happening here? How could any conservative think that America has more to lose by going over the cliff than by having Republicans “reach across the aisle”?