Originally posted by: Jhhnn
From CKG-
I do not support the increased spending - which I've repeatedly stated. There are NO candidates at this time who say they will change and totally reform our gov't spending -
Yet you seem to support Bush wholeheartedly, and the particulars of the entire neocon agenda of breaking the government under a mountain of debt, their way of achieving fiscal discipline somewhere down the road. I'm not interested in their brand of fiscal discipline, you have only to look to Argentina and Brazil to understand where they're leading us. Argentines spend ~37% of the govt budget to maintain their debt, and their middle class is destroyed. Their financial elite got unbelievably rich selling out their countrymen, and ours are in the process of doing the same to us...
And you regularly attack and ridicule the one candidate whose stated goal is to balance the budget, and who has a proven track record of doing just that as a governor- Howard Dean. We don't have to allow privileged class looting of the treasury to achieve fiscal integrity, quite the contrary. We do have some tough choices, none of which will get any easier under the pressure of mounting debt. If we want lower taxes, we'll have to accept lower expenditures and less in the way of services. If we want a huge military, wars of adventure, corporate pork, NMD, and a lot of the other stuff advanced by the Bush agenda, we'll have to pay for it eventually- better now than somewhere down the road, with interest, of course...
I'll issue the same challenge to you as to all the budget-cutting idealists- lay it out. Explain to me just how you'll eliminate 1/3 of federal spending w/o raising taxes. Ignore SS, since it currently pays for itself and more. Have at it.
Might want to avoid obvious pie in the sky financial projections while you're at it....