[GoCards]

I hope Sean calls out McCain with his Tea Party Hobbit comment, that is getting my goat.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Holy smokes - he’s been dead for 55 years!

[EveningStar]

[newfreep]

If he married Connie Francis, they both would become Connie Mack.

[notaliberal]

Yeah ole connie mack is on “the list” politicians getting rich when they get elected to congress.

[SUSSA]

Mack coming on now to talk about his “Penny Plan”

[woofie]

Everybody’s got plans... until they get hit.
Mike Tyson

[Vinnie]

Republicans... Present this plan to the people.

Simple, easy to grasp, really works.

Pass it, dare the dims, president to veto it.

A winner!!

[arthurus]

No plan that balances the budget in 6 years or 3 years or 10 years or x years will balance the budget, ever. Spending that is not ended now by eliminating programs and departments now will not happen beyond the first cuts, which will be largely a matter of rearranging the numbers on the paper. If a department is not eliminated NOW it will expand quickly to replenish the "cuts" with new spending and surpass them with "emergency" spending. The debt ceiling will have to be raised again to meet the emergency (-ies). Do it now or just go home.

[DuncanWaring]

1% per year for 6 years?

That’s 6% (by my calculations).

Current Federal spending is roughly $3.7 trillion per year, of which roughly $1.5 trillion is borrowed.

6% of $3.7 trillion is roughly $220 billion, lowering the deficit from $1.5 trillion to $1.28 trillion.

Therefore, this “Penny Plan” is absolute BS.

What am I missing?