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"The hole is too big to plug with cost cutting or economic growth alone."

Say's who? Take a look at the 2011 budget: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html

The biggest pieces of the pie are things we are UNWILLING to cut (not incapable of cutting)! Its time for us to make some difficult decisions about what cuts we should make instead of relying on other peoples' money to solve other peoples' problems.



Exactly. If we rolled back overall spending to where it was in 1999 and curtailed the military (stopping the two big wars, closing assorted bases).

A decade without real economic growth should be matched with a decade of no government growth.


Democrats will have to be the one to do it too. Republicans don't have the credibility. It's the Nixon in China thing where a Republican can open dialog with a communist leader but a Democrat would appear to be socialist for doing so.


Says the former comptroller-general of the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.O.U.S.A. Cutting out the military now might fix today's deficit (and it should happen) but that baby boomer time bomb is ticking.




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