I don't believe it is unfixable. What the Republicans should do, IMHO, is to introduce a longer range plan, 12-15 years, that makes the necessary cuts, but doesn't put them in the untenable political position of having to run against the scare-mongering tactics of the DNC and the MSM.
In my view, all plans that alter the basic fabric of American society should be introduced over this kind of time period. I know we are bleeding currently, and need to cut spending ‘now’, and we should do that. However, the bigger fixes need to be thoughtful long-range plans that allow for reasonable societal adjustments.
The left should be painted as the party that wants to change every American’s basic way of life, overnight, with things like dramatic shifts in health care, big tax increases, increased ages for retirement and medicare, etc.. They should be painted as the party that doesn't plan for the future, and that has no respect for the sacrifices made by Americans to position themselves for the future - only to have liberal politicians pull the rug out from under them.
If a viable multi-step (with substantive early spending cuts) long-term plan is put forth, and is sold as a vision for the future, it will garner more public support, and neutralize much of the opposition.
As far as those who ‘would rather leave office’ - excellent. Then we don't have to throw them out.
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Far from it. Hold the line here, and the US is in substantially better shape than Canada back in the mid 90s when they hit 110 percent of GDP debt.
The problems are unfixable because Americans don’t want them fixed. We’re at the point in our history where the people want bread, circuses and endless wars against the barbarians.
Everyone is open to cutting, if it’s not their program on the block. Everyone wants their program funded so long has two nickels of someone else’s money to rub together.
We don’t have time for a 15 year plan. In 2 years they’d be off the wagon and spending like old times again. Because it’s what the people want. The country is the problem, the politicians are just symptoms.
That is the way we got where we are now but over a longer period of time. The transformation actually started in the late 1800's with the Communist Party USA being started in 1907. They have slowly and stealthily introduced policies that achieve the opposite of what they are touted to achieve. They excuse the results as unintended consequences. Early on we had the Federal Reserve, Social Security, the graduated income tax, FDR's New Deal, and later LBJ's Great Society with Medicare, Civil Rights Act, Voters Rights Act, etc. Now the 1960's radicals are in charge and they no longer want to wait. They want it all now!
If we don't stop them now they will never leave office. Soros, among the many other plans he is financing, is now setting up political apparati to elect his own Secretaries of State in key battleground states. They control the elections and if he can control the elections even more than they now have with ACORN and all the phony voters on the rolls then rebellion is the only alternative.