Jim DeMint will not allow this in a lame duck session.
The operation of a simple lever is post graduate science to the Krugfool.
Don’t know how he ever got into economics, because math is most certainly not his friend.
As for the Nobel-O-dork committee...it appears that all save for the science awards are now permanently beclowned.
And Plan B will involve a whole lot of tax increases.
This is precisely how they got the major defense cuts that are coming.
bet none suggest stoppoing spending
Raise our taxes and the Republican party is dead.
“to be reached through revenue raised by an overhaul of the tax code, savings from changes to social programs like Medicare and Social Security, and cuts to federal programs. Once the framework is approved, lawmakers would vote on expedited instructions to relevant Congressional committees to draft the details over six months to a year”.
I’m sorry, but the first item “revenue raised” is a non starter. Anyone who thinks giving more revenue to the ultimate revenuers who have spent us into oblivion with the revenue they already have access to is an absolute moron, or very wise to the ways of the electorate. How about we just see what can be done with the present level of revenue, or back it up about four years and start there.
Cutting $400 bil a year from the budget is like cutting soda from a household budget. Nice try, but it’s only a fraction of a fraction that needs to be cut.
As long as we have an EPA, we’re still spending too much.
A few things bother me here - one, the timing of this ‘plan’, the dearth of details regarding the senators involved, and the source.
Krugman has been lying under the rock
$4 trillion over 10 years isn’t even back to pre-Obama levels
It is still far too much debt
I don’t consider sequestration a nightmare.
When I was younger I thought Bertrand Russell was the smartest idiot I was familiar with.
Then, for a couple years, I thought it was Krugman.
Now, I’m back to Lord Russell: Krugman’s just a run of the mill idiot.
But is he 'Fast and Furious'?....................
I call BS on this!
How many freakin', goldarn times are we going to let these floppy eared losers kick the can down the road?
The savings are in the future, but the spending is now.
Hmmmm....the good Senators conveniently forget that all ways and means bills must originate in the House. Silly them.
Obama piled $6 Trillion upon us in less than 3 1/2 years......and these guys are talking about a $4 trillion reduction in 10 years!!!
This doesn’t make a lick of fiscal/financial sense to me.
The public always gets rolled by each DC crisis du jure. If a “deal” is in the making, it is just a way to put a pretty face on BOHICA.