g5000
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Trying to assign blame rather than talking about how to solve the problem. Figures.
Laying blame in order to keep a problem from happening. I'd say that is an attempt at problem solving when dealing with immature wing nuts and their leaders who lack spine, or worse, maybe the GOP wants sequestration because they fear naming the programs they want to cut.
Obama campaigned all over the nation saying, and being criticized by ALL conservatives and the whole GOP, he wanted to raise taxes on the wealthy elite. Why can't the GOP be honest and open with the American people and just name the programs they want to cut?
The whole batch are cowards. An R or a D after their name does not change anything except the flavor of their cowardice.
The budget can be easily balanced. Hell, it is easy to run up a surplus with three simple steps.
1. Ban all tax expenditures. That's over a trillion dollars of increased revenues annually right there. You can lower everyone's taxes. It would also remove the incentive for special interests to pay Congressmen to put tax expenditures in the tax code. So less corruption. Plus everyone who earns the same income pays identical taxes. It does not get more fair than that. Banning tax expenditures kills several birds with one stone.
2. Raise the retirement age to 70. Boehner has actually proposed raising the retirement age, so your claim the GOP has not named any programs they want to cut is bullshit. I would raise the Medicare and Social Security eligibility age to 70, and index it to 9 percent of the population henceforth. Pay five years more into those programs, and draw out five years less. That's a huge spending cut. We are living decades longer than our ancestors, we should not be retiring at the same age they did. Common sense.
3. Cut defense. We are spending far above what we spent during the Cold War which was a period during which we were under a far greater existential threat to our nation.
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