Seriously, wtf is wrong with trying to balance our national budget.
Nothing, when the timing is right. But should one try trimming their toenails during a heart attack?
Right now government should be spending on infrastructure and JOBS.
No, we shouldn't.
Because usually those projects waste money.
Remember the 1 Trillion dollar stimulus. How many jobs did that produce?
What we need to do is rebuild our manufacturing infrastructure and get our trade policies under control. Then you can get the money to do the infrastructure stuff.
We are running huge deficits because the free traders allowed us to move all the good manufacturing jobs overseas, and we are bleeding a half trillion a year in trade to other countries.
From 1776-1976, the entire national debt was all of 600 Billion. That was it. That's what we ran up with two world wars and a few smaller ones, building the interstate highway system, the space program, the New Deal and the Great Society. We could afford all this stuff.
Because in that time period, we exported more than we imported, there was plenty of money to finance the government, and plenty of jobs to keep the tax payer to tax recipiant ratio sane.
Spending a crapload of money we don't have isn't the solution. Getting us back on track econmically is. And if that means creating jobs that aren't great initially, so be it.
