You're right, but there will be cuts this year and the future fix will involve the rate at which entitlements grow. If the growth rate is brought down over time entitlements become easier to fix long term. Also, the old playbook of "future cuts" and "new taxes now" has been reversed, that alone is a big victory.
“...the future fix will involve the rate at which entitlements grow. If the growth rate is brought down over time...”
I know you mean well. To put it bluntly, we don’t have time.
If we do not substantially cut the budget NOW and freeze the debt ceiling, but instead raise the debt ceiling while putting off budget cuts to the future, our bond ratings will go in the toilet and the dollar as global reserve currency is rescinded.
Our economy crashes big time.
This is what BHO2 wants so he can establish a Marxist government in the ruins of what once was the U.S.A.
The Republicans in the House of Representatives are our last stand at the Alamo.
Yes, this Boehner fight is as much about changing the mentality and the old Dem MO of doing things as anything else.