Well that' pretty much what President Obama suggested in the State of the Union speech. Let's call a truce on what has already been done and go forward civilly hand in hand with spending frozen at present levels. Meaning, of course, at the levels that have already done the damage and without correcting any of the problems that have generated a runaway deficit and debt.
To any conservative this is not acceptable.
I submit that the vast majority of Americans with a clue are more conservative than not--that would include most of mainstream Americans. So it's pretty hard to acknowledge that and say that conservatives are out of touch with the people since most of the people are at least somewhat conservative.
Then there is the political class who looks to the federal government to solve all of societies ills and who blame conservatives for all the ills of society.
Which is out of touch? Hmmmm.
Fact is the majority of Americans are in debt. Real conservatives don't believe in debt, or so many self defined conservatives suggest. I submit most of the conservatives who post on this MB have debt, likely you too, Foxfyre.
Faux conservatives, the type who post here ad nauseaum, are easy to identify. They wear their values in each post they submit - avarice, bigotry and callous disregard for others.
Okay everybody who thinks Wry might be right here repeat after me:
Everything good, positive, or useful in this country has been accomplished by big government so long as liberals were in charge.
Everything bad, ugly, hateful, uncivil, cruel, selfish, greedy, counterproductive, and wrong in this country has been accomplished by conservatives.
If you say it often enough you can believe it too.
You know Wry, I get really tired of being accused of being the devil himself over and over and over by the likes of you.
I have been deeply in uncollateralized debt in the past to the point I could have legally declared bankruptcy. I didn't. I did without a few needs and a lot of wants for a long time, but I dug myself out of it. I didn't expect anybody else to do that for me--certainly not the government--and nobody did. And I now know not to do the things that put me in debt and I've learned from experience to avoid pitfalls that generally produce unintended negative consequences.
Right now the only 'debt' I have is a modest mortgage on our house and that isn't really a debt as the payments get made on time including interest and the house has appreciated in value almost as much as what we initially paid for it. The mortgage company doesn't look at it as a debt we owe them but rather as an investment they made. And it has been good for both parties.
The uncollaterized debts our government is forcing on us is quite a different matter.