Maybe you should have read the article, rather than jumping to conclusions. The proposals he made, while not a solution to the problems we face, are two serious and important steps in the right direction.
Step 1: reduce non-security spending back to 2008 levels; and step 2: preserve the Bush tax cuts for another 2 years. In a little more than 2 years, we will hopefully have even more conservatives in Congress and a newly elected conservative president. Then we can see about reducing spending even further and making the tax cuts permanent.
“Maybe you should have read the article, rather than jumping to conclusions. The proposals he made, while not a solution to the problems we face, are two serious and important steps in the right direction.
Step 1: reduce non-security spending back to 2008 levels; and step 2: preserve the Bush tax cuts for another 2 years. In a little more than 2 years, we will hopefully have even more conservatives in Congress and a newly elected conservative president. Then we can see about reducing spending even further and making the tax cuts permanent.”
Milk toast.
What our “leaders” need to say is
Step 1: reduce non-security spending back to 19th century levels; and step 2: double the Bush tax cuts and make them permanent.