Reply #82: What we should do is obvious, even to politicians... [View All]

[I hate liars]

...the problem is far worse than making a choice between A and B. We could kick-start the economy again AND take a chunk out of the deficit by doing this:

- Cutting Defense drastically, and putting returning service personnel on public works projects
- Killing the Bush tax cuts and then restoring Clinton-era (or better yet, early Reagan-era) tax rates for everyone
- Instituting universal health care
- Amending laws that encourage companies to offshore jobs and hoard profits offshore

Of course, the point is that we know what would solve the problem, and if we DID chose to do these things, we'd all be better off (including the wealthy). But it won't happen, because rational choice is not an option, at least not at the Federal government level. Corruption has eaten too far into the system to allow for that.

JMO