I’m still trying to understand;
why do we have to have a debt ceiling increase and
why do we have to put cuts ten years out - everyone knows they won’t happen.
You’re absolutely correct. All deals should be in the same time frame. A 10-year plan is nothing more than a wimpy way to kick the can down the road, and essentially continue doing business as usual. It’s amazing the Republicans, and Boehner specifically, are dumb enough to buy into that kind of plan. To be honest with the American people, and to show some real balls, we should reflect the debt increase, the spending reductions, and the entitlement deficits, in the 2011/2012 budget. Anything else is patently dishonest. A 10-year plan is no plan at all. And, an honest budget for 2011/2012 forces Obama to make some real decisions, a concept a concept as foreign to him as his roots.