The Occupy Wall Street protests

That is bs, 4 trillion over 10 years? You can't hold future Congresses to that.
It was nothing but a smoke screen. I am smarter than that!

 

Did your reading comprehension skills leave you when you hopped on the Obama train?

We can cut defense spending, Interior Dept spending, FAA spending, FBI spending, Veterans spending, etc. That doesn't mean the navy, parks, air traffic controllers and vet hospitals will disappear. A real solution would be to have every single department cut their budget by a pre-determined amount and have a panel of non political people study and determine what programs, waste, etc. can and will be eliminated. Hard decisions must be made. If we lose a base or a ship or a park or a museum or a clinic or whatever, call it collateral damage. Something has to be done and cutting a paltry $120B over 10 years is tantamount to doing absolutely nothing.

Red, you and others have this attitude that the government is a big ole money tree that will bear fruit year in and year out. Well, the tree is getting root rot and needs treatment immediately.

 

there are whole cabinet level depts we can close completely, like agriculture and labor.

 

Especially agriculture and labor.

 

None of what any of us say here matters. If someone doesn't make some serious changes the market will do it for us. This country is a step closer to Spain, Greece and Italy everyday. People think things are bad now, just way until the well runs completely dry. Pretty much everything Red has argued for and against will be gone. Then these protestors and occupiers will do what they did in Greece.

 

Ironicly, this is the best outcome that could happen at this point. Congress needs to set more stuff on autopilot and just get out of the way of businesses.

 

I give my opinions all the time. You just don't like them.

You cannot cherrypick. All get cut. The degree of cuts would be determined by the nation's needs, e.g. national security.

Reform of tax system is sorely needed and should be at the top of the list. Tax refunds should become a thing of the past. You owe x, you pay x. End of story. Buh bye IRS.

And you limp wristed liberals can't inderstand that you cannot spend money that you don't have.

Start cutting and let the chips fall where they may. Politicians will soon learn that we want and expect a balanced budget with a manageable deficit. We can start by ousting Obama and putting an end to the class warfare he is responsible for fomenting.