When Your Income Fais To Exceed Your Outgo You Have To Change The Outcome Of Your Ingo

[Stinky The Clown]

We as a nation need money.

We recognize the problem. We have defined the problem. It is really very simple.

Our Outgo Exceeds Our Income.

There things that can be done to remedy this. Simple things that a re clear to everyone.

Increase Income is one thing we can do.

Decrease Outgo is another thing we can do.

What else? Well . . . there's not a lot, actually. In fact, there's nothing else to do.

The real problem is how we go about this.

repubicans want to peck at the edges and nickle-and-dime "regular" Americans into full-on poverty.

Democrats want to do whatever the repubicans tell them to do.

Collectively, these two ostensibly opposing groups have come up with a Bill of a Thousand Cuts (a frightening pre-view of the 2012 budget, which will be called Death by a Thousand Cuts). They hunted for everything that had any chance of helping defenseless little people and suggested cutting it. A few lone squealers squealed and they stopped. "Enough for Today. Our Work is Done For Now." they intoned in unison, satisfied visages looking all so statesmanlike and wise.

Meanwhile, the motherlodes of Increased Income and Decreased Outgo remain, inexplicably, hidden in plain sight.

Taxes. On the wealthy. On corporations.

Prosthetic penises in the form of the Department of Endless Wars.

Raise one and cut the other.

Problem solved.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. "Department of Endless Wars", perrrrrrrfect. Too bad our Peace Department

isn't able to come through for us.

[fasttense]

2. If families ran their budgets like RepubliCONS run the government.

A family in debt would immediately quit their job.

[SoCalDem]

3. Raising taxes to 1955 levels would go a long way to renewed solvency

and if the whiny crybabies threaten to leave.. let 'em..

we need a big ole reset button...like the "easy" button at Staples..

Over the years things have been allowed ( no encouraged to be) to get more and more complicated, and we are just about ungovernable..

If you finally start opening the credit card bills and notice that you are $20K in debt, cutting 100% of the cable bill will not do it..

[Boojatta]

4. "Prosthetic penises"

That reminds me of something that I posted long ago, that was fortunately not too hard for me to find.

[dkf]

5. Of course you would like us to support everything you like and defund all the stuff you don't.

But did you see that vote for the CR? Damn I didn't realize until then how we are overwhelmed by Republicans in the House.

Republicans don't believe in funding hardly anything. As long as they have any power whatsoever, we are going to be defending against cuts galore.

And if we can't show that we are capable of making decisions that can keep this country solvent I don't see how we will win.

Democrats are unrealistic to think the safety nets are sustainable as is. The problem is in the future when baby boomers keep retiring and needing more and more from the entitlement programs, mostly Medicare.

If Democrats can't figure out how to control Medicare costs and keep this country solvent then we will have a hard time. Simply defending spending tells the public nothing about why we will be good stewards of our nations financial health.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. You called it an "entitlement." The fact is, it is a service you paid for.

[dkf]

7. Not Medicare.

The amount you pay during your lifetime doesn't cover the amount you will receive.

From Wikipedia:

"No matter what the wage level, marital status, or retirement date, a man or woman can expect to receive benefits that will cost the system far more than the taxes he or she paid into the system"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

[hobbit709]

9. Same old, same old

The one note song again.

[xchrom]

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