No one talks about cutting existing government programs and spending, but how is that different than adjusting the debt limit? Republicans need to get serious, get unified and make the argument for massive cuts in government spending and programs. The budget can be balanced now. Yes, there are consequences, such as massive unemployment of government employees. Sorry, not sorry. Government employees are the problem. They don’t build a damn thing. It time to pick sides, it’s either government employees losing their jobs or people in the private sector.
It's far worse than that. Say an employee in the private sector could create $1,000 of value every day. Government employees have the power to negate a multiple of that. One government employee with rules, regulations and incessant bans can destroy $100,000 of value every day. That magnifier is really destructive to the nation. Imagine what replacing our entire energy and transportation infrastructure is going to cost. Hundreds of trillions of dollars that nobody has. And there will be ZERO net benefit to anybody of that waste.