blackhawk
Diamond Member
There would need to be cuts there you would also have to have cuts to entitlements and social programs the right would never accept cuts to the military and the left would be the same with entitlements and social programs. There in a nutshell is the problem both sides have there sacred cows they will never touch which leaves us where we are rising debt no end in sight no matter who is in charge.I hear pretty much the same type of rhetoric from the left on this topic the right likes to pretend you can solve the problem with just spending cuts the left does the same by pretending taxing the rich more will do it. You want to start to deal with the national debt you would have to have across the board tax hikes and spending cuts with nothing or no one off limits and you would have to do this for decades if they tried this the voters would vote them out in hearbeat. The truth is no one from the sitting President whoever it is to Congress to the voting public wants to do this type of stuff so everyone just sits back and pretends to be outraged over the national debt when it's politically convenient for them but don't really care about it.Both parties run up the debt yet people only give dam when the other side does it. The nation has not been debt free since 1835 under Andrew Jackson that lasted a total of one year suffice it to say it doesn't matter which side is in control the debt continues to climb.
That's a whole lot more reasonable than the rhetoric I hear from the right when the left raises the debt/deficit.
I think cuts need to start with the military. We spend more on military than the rest of the world combined. We have bases all over the world and get involved in conflicts we don't need to be involved in. I've never heard what I felt was a reasonable argument for the amount of money we spend on our military.