SFC Ollie
Still Marching
It's quite simple. If by the next election, there is still a deficit and more deficit spending, then we once again vote out those who haven't fixed it. And we keep voting them out until we get a group in there who will and can fix it.
There will always be a deficit. As I noted in an earlier post, by 2013 the gov revenues (tax) will only be equal to what is spent under "Mandatory Spending" (SS, Medicare, gov pensions, interest on debt, VA, disability, e.g.). There will be no room for "Discretionary Spending" (military, EPA, DOE, DOJ, Homeland Security, Dept of Ed. and many more) if the Federal budget is balanced. The goal is to get the deficit to a manageable number, comparable to the deficits of the countries rest of the world. Right now the US deficit spending is outpacing the rest of the world exponentially.
I like Chris Christie. That man can take some heat.
There cannot "always be a deficit" If there is then each year we simply go further into debt. You may as well surrender now. We have to get the deficit down to zero and start paying what we owe. If it means giving up some programs then that is what we have to do, there is no such thing as a free ride for the country and that is all deficit spending is.