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Frankly, I think the American electorate is part of the problem. People say they want action on the deficit, but when you actually get down to the specifics, they punish the people trying to solve it.

Wrong.

Ya miss the big picture.

Only those connected to government or benefit off the "business as usual government", don't want change. They have a rather large conflict of interest here and there are millions of them.

I can assure you, the majority of private sector, middle class America want's big change.

Wrong. Ya miss the big picture.

Actually, I think its you who is missing the big (bigger?) picture.

About half of American households these daze receieve some type of Government benefits. [I have to count myself among them as I’m retired military.] Beyond that, a lot of others are sypathetic to big Government entitlement spending, especially Union and women folk.

As for me, I’m reconciled to the fact that my military retirement benefits will slowly wither away. Its already happening to our healthcare benefit. But I’ve done well enough professionally/financially that I can withstand it. Even so, it burns me too see the Government extending (expanding) benefits to those who have done zero (or less) for this country see while military retirees (veterans) get screwed. I’m especially talking about illegals. Why? Because there are a lot of them and only a relative few of us.