“arguing in part that actions concerning her staff are protected under the Speech or Debate clause of the Constitution. In a lengthy ruling, the judge disagreed.”
too bad Sens Packwood and Hatfield didn’t have the benefit of her BRILLIANT legal advice
no. but i think the #1 priority in this country needs to be balancing the budget. that cannot be done without controlling costs in SS and medicare. medicare will be broke in 2025 or so. there are four options:
#1 raise medicare taxes
#2 cut medicare spending
#3 a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes
#4 borrow more from the communists in peking
if we need to balance the budget the pentagon should not be immune from cuts. in fact, it is mathematically impossible to balance the budget without cutting needless military spending. SS/medicare are about 55% of the budget; 10% is interest on the debt (which cannot be cut); defense spending is 20%, and remaining discretionary spending is 15%.
to balance our budget the military must share the pain, especially as the wars in afghanistan and iraq come to an end. the alternative is borrowing more money from the communists in peking
The countrys goin to hell faster than when that sonofabitch Roosevelt was in charge. Too much cheap money sloshing around the world. The worst mistake we ever made was letting Nixon get off the gold standard