>Can you tell me what is wealthy? There are not enough Warren Buffets around to make up shortfalls so what actual numbers is Lindsey talking about? I’m pretty sure I fall into the category and I wouldn’t mind if I’d be assured my kids wouldn’t be screwed by the tax codes the next time rats take power. I think this would have to take place only after the budget is scrubbed of all waste fraud and useless duplicate programs are eliminated. I also think gov. workers have to be reigned in and depts. eliminated. Than and only than will upper middle class American except the reduction or elimination of their SS payments. You keep saying this won’t amount to much but it’s a matter of fairness.
Yes, I get the fairness angle. I get the symbolism angle. I get all that matter of principle.
I also understand that if you put preconditions on any moves to solve the problem, you are just putting it off and making it worse.
Come on people, can we stop with the nonsense? How about actual solutions being proffered? Cutting an aggregate single digit percentage of the budget from a bunch of departments is going to do exactly nothing in the face of the budget busting entitlements.
How many times have we heard that they are going to cut waste and fraud? How many times has it been tried? How many times has it succeeded?
I’ll answer:
A) Very many
B) Many
C) Bloody rarely.
We can keep whimpering about how “the government better do this before they touch my entitlements”, but face facts. Either something gets done and pronto, or this ship is going down.
The iceberg is directly in our course. Right now we’ve put off a course change too long to completely dodge it. We’re at the point where we decide if it’s a grazing blow or if we hit it dead on full steam ahead.
Why are so many of you dead set on sinking the ship?