Debt Ceiling Deadline - August 2nd

I'm watching the debt ceiling debate on C-SPAN right now. All the democrats are whining about possible cuts to medicare and social security. I hope the republicians take a chain saw to those entitlement programs! Cut 'em, slice 'em, cleave them in two!

 

social security should be permanently closed down.

 

Can't just close the door on it. They could however create an option so that people could take what they would pay into the system and invest it on their own for their own retirement instead of having the government do it for them. This would eliminate politicians (both parties) using SS as their personal piggy bank. It would also place more responsibility on the individual which in some cases would be catastrophic, oh phucking well. If you piss away your retirement you live with the consequences. On the flip side it would do quite well for those that are smart enough to do the right things with this money and would probably pay off double what SS would.

This would have to be a gradual inclusion, work them in as you go/ grandfathered type of thing but it could/would work.

 

Just because you do not belong to a party does not mean you are non-partisan. My neice and her husband do not belong to a party, but they are conservatives.

I do not believe you are intellectually dishonest Red; there is more to intellectual dishonesty than refusing to admit your political leanings. But in your posts you do not come across as a moderate. Just because you take a few conservative positions does not make you a moderate. I am a mainstream conservative, but I am in favor of allowing gays in the military which is a liberal position. And I agree with Joker in that few conservatives deny that fact, while liberals do it all the time, prefering to call themselves moderates instead. I first noticed that years ago, although I think to some extent they have begun to return home.

 

How anyone can support the Republicans in this, with their not willing to compromise position, is beyond me.

Again, as Red consistently says, the middle class ought to be up in arms with the Republicans. They (the GOP) are the enemy as are the ultra rich. But the GOP and the ultra rich keep kickin our asses.

Why? The proxy fight they run with manipulated, middle and low class white guys. Nowhere does the failure in American education show more strongly than all these people not being able to see the blazing light of day but instead marching to the beat of the GOP's divisive drum. Amazing.

Politics suck, and compromises are normally less than optimum, from anyone's view, but, sadly, that is how politics IN A DEMOCRACY works.

Being unwilling to compromise is tantamount to being unable to govern.

You TEA Party yahoos can take that one to the bank!

Geaux Tigers

 

Compromise has been the problem.

 

Here's a compromise - for one full year, give the national governemnt ALL the money that you earn. They obviously know how to spend it in a more wise and beneficial way than you do.

 

You see, that would not be a compromise. Dang, I wish the education system was better.

 

No, reckless spending without adequate revenue has been the problem, sport.

 

I wish the education system was better too, that way our schools wouldn't be mass producing lazy fools who are dependent on government handouts (parasites on the productive).