Next presidential election: Obama VS. Romney

[bu villain]

Why should it be though? Cutting 1T a year would be easy. It would simply require politicians to use common sense. Hell, the stimulus alone was a wasted trillion.Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2

It's tough because the places that real savings are to be had are in the programs that are the most popular. Medicare, SS, defense, etc. It's also hard because there are very few places that everyone agrees should be cut so whenver you make a cut, it's going to make some people unhappy. The stimulus is already done and over with so you can't "cut" it.

[BanginJimmy]

It's tough because the places that real savings are to be had are in the programs that are the most popular. Medicare, SS, defense, etc. It's also hard because there are very few places that everyone agrees should be cut so whenver you make a cut, it's going to make some people unhappy. The stimulus is already done and over with so you can't "cut" it.

Medicare and SS are dead in the water in their current form. Previous generations of politicians (both parties) have made sure of that and no sustainable level of taxation can save them. If politicians would actually say that, then articulate a plan for replacing them, we have a chance. The problem is that generations of Americans have been trained to be fully dependent on the govt for their retirement that they are seen as easy votes by those with no plan, but are quick to attack. All you have to do is lie a little about reform plans and that will kill it.

EVERY VOTER IN THIS COUNTRY IS THE REASON THE US IS A SINKING SHIP. You are too stupid to think for yourself, instead you believe whatever chain email or 30 second commercial or opposition talking points you see. You are too lazy to actually research what is being proposed, instead you prefer to let others tell you what you should believe. You are too hard headed to look beyond party affiliation, race, religion, gender, whatever to actually know what you are voting for or against, instead you vote for the guy with an R next to his name or you vote for the black guy or you vote for the opposition party with absolutely no knowledge of their intentions.

[bu villain]

Nice rant. Was that your way of agreeing that budget cuts are easier said than done?