Would you support the next President if they championed massive spending cuts?

[agentsmith101]

Education and science should not be touched. Both are already underfunded.

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: JD50
This is why I try as hard as I can to completely avoid you. You are a condescending, arrogant ass. That aside, you also continue to quote me out of context, like you did in the other thread.

How hard are you trying, when you are reading my posts?

I'll offer you a deal, you don't comment on my posts and I won't on yours.

As for 'condescening', that's how people who point out basic errors apparently come across to people who make a lot of them.

Out of context in the other thread? You just throw the phrase around, unable to admit your errors. You did not back that up with any argument, did you.

But in this thread, you make a valid point, that the statement you made can be interpreted different ways; because you chose to use a vague rhetorical question, 'just a coincidence' that the republicans were in charge of congress, it leaves open the possibility you are insinuating that they played the dominant role, or merely a substantive one; you can't tell from the 'context'. I'll accept your clarification that you meant the republicans played merely a substantive role - however much - and point you to the point I made in response, that the evidence suggests the president has a lot more than Congress to do with the economy's performance; and the many facts I posted for you to read, which you have failed to say a word about, so they are, as far as we can tell, unread by you.

To further make the point that Senseamp wasn't completely off base in giving Clinton most of the credit, consider the deficit - skyrocketed under 12 years of Reagan/Bush, reduced back to zero under Clinton in 8 years, and then skyrocketed yet again by GWB almost immediately. Before you point to Congress, Clinton got it to 0 with six years of republicans running congress; GWB shot it back way up with six years of a republican congress. The congress didn't change, the president did. The president dominates that issue.

 

[kedlav]

Originally posted by: hellokeith
Just day dreaming here of course, but I'm wondering if a President came in and made it his/her goal in office to instigate massive spending cuts, would that President actually receive any support at all?

We're talking everything on the Federal level that can possibly be cut without new legislation, and then moving on to passing legislation which introduce further spending cuts.

* Entitlements - massively reduced or gone
* Aid of any kind - massively reduced or gone
* Money to states for xxxx - massively reduced or gone
* Art, Science, etc - massively reduced or gone
* Transportation and roads - massively reduced or gone
* Education - etc. you get the idea

The point of these massive spending cuts would be the enactment of zero national deficit, balanced budget, pay-as-you-go funding. Don't have the $? Then too bad the program gets cancelled.

So would you support a President in this wild fairy tale of an idea?

edit: Aid means domestic AND foreign. I forgot Military, but it's included and would likely mean closing most/all bases not on US soil and ending ALL military conflict activities.

Pork removal and certain military cuts (mostly when speaking of the massive nuclear arsenal, which is a rather expensive relic -- a smaller arsenal will easily serve, as well as doing a proper restructuring where efficiency and necessity are the primary reasons for change, not who's congressman is whining the most) I'd support a great deal. Certain types of state support I'd also like to cut. I'd prefer a balanced budget save in times of major recession/depressions or total war as well. Budgetarily, my biggest pet-peeve are the giant interest payments that we keep stacking more money on. Its high time we start making headway into clearing up the national debt, especially before the baby boomers begin to retire en masse. Think of what all you could do with that extra money that wouldn't go towards debt... cut taxes, fix social security, and pay for universal healthcare.