You might work backwards a bit and see where the financial rupture is happening first.
‘everyone who is anyone knows that if you fired all the federal employees and murdered all the federal retirees in their beds, when you woke up the next morning you’d still be running a massive deficit.’
True, but it is a good start!
“massive deficit.”
No we wouldn’t. There’d be no one to write all those checks.
“I find it difficult to believe that you are an informed person ~ everyone who is anyone knows that if you fired all the federal employees and murdered all the federal retirees in their beds, when you woke up the next morning you’d still be running a massive deficit.”
I find it not difficult to believe that you aren’t so bright, because you are a retired Fed, right?
If you were in any way capable of abstract thought, you would know that a federal employee costs far far more than their compensation & benefits. Reducing the incompetence in government is simply a matter of reducing the number of federal employees - we save in their pay & benefits, in maintaining lavish facilities for them, and in avoiding the future mistakes (for which they are nearly universally not held accountable).
All of those things will lower the cost of government massively. We’ll still have problems, to be sure, but they won’t be as big, and the obstructions to their solution will be fewer.
You're right. Of course, to Ryan's credit he's one of the few who has actually created a detailed plan to address entitlement spending. Count that as another point in his favor.
>>I find it difficult to believe that you are an informed person ~ everyone who is anyone knows that if you fired all the federal employees and murdered all the federal retirees in their beds, when you woke up the next morning you’d still be running a massive deficit.<<
Therefore we should do nothing. Says the self-styled “Informed Person.”
Obnoxious. What an insufferable ass you are.
I’m afraid that you are misinformed, muawiyah. Elimination of Federal spending on healthcare and welfare alone would more than eliminate the deficit.