For clarification - are you calling me fiscally challenged?
That statement on no one in DC voting for that big a cut is simply realism. The morons can't seem to pass more "cuts" than just a few billion over 5 years, so why should we believe they'll cut 8% when they haven't been able to limit the rate of increase to under 6% yet? Its not that they shouldn't - its just acknowledging that they won't.
And I'm sure everyone would like to keep all the Bush43 cuts, but without massive spending cuts now (which none of the buffoons will support), we're getting to the point where we'll have to give back a small part just to get back to a balance in a reasonable timeframe.
And I hate to have to disagree, but cutting further now without matching spending cuts that don't rely on overly optimistic assumptions (ie, you have to implement pay-go) is incredibly reckless, as it will drive the already insanely growing deficit and the accompanying interest rates. Implement pay-go, and I'm all for looking at appropriate tax cuts.....
Not at all. Don't be so touchy. I said "To our fiscally challenged liberal and centrist Republican friends..." The word "our" applies, to you and me. LOL
>>>>That statement on no one in DC voting for that big a cut is simply realism.
I can't buy into that general mentality. Lets not offer up excuses. Instead, lets have real solutions. The 8% cut was just a throw away expression. However, the freeze I mentioned was not. I'm dead serious. This current sad state of affairs has only existed since Gingrich left and Bush43 arrived. If the GOP Congress were as fiscally responsible with Bush43 as they were with Clinton, we wouldn't have a situation whereby runnaway spending is normal policy.
There is nothing insane about pushing for more tax cuts and matching those tax cuts with reasonable spending reductions or even spending freezes. What's been insane, is this GOP President and this GOP Congress spending money we don't have on programs we don't need. Advancing more and more waste, fraud and abuse.