All of you free spending Liberals need to keep your eye on Greece----That's the way this Country is heading
All of you free spending Liberals need to keep your eye on Greece----That's the way this Country is heading
I'm up for some austerity measures.
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987
We need to go both directions. Some of those corporate tax cuts on the top end. We've got a **** ton too many folks on "disability". We need to roll some of that back. And whatever program we do the Obama phones with. And, I'm good with cutting back some other generic welfare benefits. I think we should maintain the Medicare and elderly SSI.
That would not even put a dent in the problem---------We will have $27 Trillion in debt in 10 years----------Still think the Gov't "HELPS"
There are many reasons we are far from being Greece --- we have a larger population, our country is larger also by land square footage, we have more wealth, we have more clout worldwide, we have a much higher credit rating... but that doesn't mean we should ignore the lessons Greece is teaching us, nor does it mean that a Greek default will leave the U.S. economy unblemished.
Still, its hard to not roll eyes at Greece being compared to what the U.S. is going through with its recession(s). I get that we have debt and we need to shore up our spending. However, a lot of Greek's problems are tied to the fact that they have very little control over the Euro. If they had their own currency still, they could have continued racketing up inflation forever without consequence. Pensions for everyone!
---So we will just keeping spending money and making promises to people that we will be unable to pay for-----Ever look at unfunded liabilities its over $75 Trillion-----That does not include the debt-----------Fix it now or it will be unfixable at some point in the future
Pretty much, yes. It might sound dishonest or lacking integrity, but this is the government we're talking about here, where politicians will say and do what they need to elected and then say and do whatever the hell they want once in office.So we will just keeping spending money and making promises to people that we will be unable to pay for-
---I don't mind cutting the military---cut Medicare-Medicaid----Fix Social Security-Get rid of at least 50% of all gov't agencies and most if not all the stupid Gov't welfare give-a-way or "Why work?" programs. We also need to be able to get rid of Gov't employees that do not do their job
Authorized governmental functions: roads, highways, military, police and fire, social security and medicare.
Put a lid on it! Kiss it goodbye. We gave it away, and apparently thought it made sense to do so.
Liberal Socialism never works long term
social security and medicare? You communist, you! (I am smiling when I say that.)
The Post Office is authorized under the Constitution, even though conservatives hate it. (I wear a big badge identifying me as a liberal, so post office workers know to give me good service. It has consistently worked for 59 years, even though my badge said "conservative" until 1989.)
Post roads are authorized, due to the foreseen need to knit the new country together. I would imagine that railroads would have been included, if that technology had been around in 1787.
Ukraine: Not Our Fight.
More epicycles!
---Think how much money you would have if your SS money and that paid by your employer had been put in any type of investment ----------The benefits you would receive back would be much more than you will receive from SS-----What a great deal I paid money in as far back as the 70's and they are going to give it back to me---less tax in 2020 What a great deal
It takes one to know one, and I know you don't know a damn thing.