Quote:
Originally Posted by Stimpy
I wasn't trying to twist your words. I'm honestly trying to understand a certain segment of the population in the United States. Let's try this again.
What would you cut to balance the budget? This is a question that stumps the Tea Party crowd so I'm hoping you can answer this off the top of your head.
|
This is just my prospective, I just want something better for the people and at this moment this has noting to do with being Red, or Blue.
Plenty of things, for instance
Congressmen and women salaries
750k to study a midwest fox? really?
just look at some of the pork that is in bills (both sides put it in)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stimpy
There are two issues there that are completely unrelated. First, the FED. I'm not a fan of the way it was set up or works, but it provides a function needed in a country that does not have a central banking system. What the FED needs is a good audit, which is not going to happen because neither party wants to be responsible for exposing the corruption that is at the core of that entity.
The second issue is SS. This is another one of those fear issues that the Republicans like to trot out come election time and have their hopes of making ungodly amounts of money off of. Currently the SS system is funded until 2047, using just funds collected to date. The system could be shut down tomorrow, produce no more revenue and it would still have money in it until that date. The system needs some revenue tweaks but is fine as a model. The big problem with SS is there is a group that wants to privatize it and get their hooks into the hundreds of billions of dollars in the reserve and play with it in the stock market. Based on the latest shenanigans by Wall Street would you like to see that? Wall Street can keep their hands off my SS!
|
Do you plan on retirement by 2047? I wont be old enough to retire.
The Fed controls the rate or how much money is worth, all else fails just keep printing more money, that sure did work well for the Germans.
There is so much crap that needs to be fixed and wont get close to being fixed for another twenty years. First we need to have both parties sit down and work together, until we can start working together we will be a bunch of ######s humping a doorknob.