This is all a lie. We have no choice to reduce spending. Common sense tells us that we cannot keep borrowing 40% of what we spend. We will be Greece if we do not start showing some responsibility now. Besides, it is morally reprehensible to borrow from our children to finance our current expenses.
Increasing taxes on those who make more than $200,000 per year will not help. There are simply too few of them to make a difference, and depleting our supply of investable capital will retard growth at a time when growth is the only relatively painless way out of our predicament. The politics of envy is as wrongheaded as it is ugly.
Social Darwinism really never did exist. Before Progressivism demonized religion and posited that pretty much everything is a right to be secured by government, private charities, many of them church based, did a pretty good job of providing a safety net.
Speaking of the safety net, it has become a hammock. The Central Valley of California has an unemployment rate in the teens, but the growers can't find enough pickers. Many people, my wife and I among them, have personal experiences with folks who have declined perfectly fine jobs during the recession and the "recovery" because living on the dole was easier and/or more convenient.
The safety net has become incredibly wasteful and riven with fraud. Medicaid alone will bankrupt us but is a poster child for a massive program that promises much, costs a bunch, and delivers very little if any value. What kind of empathy relegates the poor to such a program?
“Medicaid alone will bankrupt us”
Imagine Medicaid PLUS Social Security PLUS Medicare PLUS Obamacare! They throw around a few numbers that sound like Stardates from “Star Trek” to “reassure” us of the programs’ “soundness” ... In FIFTEEN YEARS, we will be a combination of Greece meets Zimbabwe, if we do not STOP “Progressivism” NOW!!!