Quote Originally Posted by FlyLie View Post
Guess I'm just dim witted!...But thinking we need to elect more responsible individuals to Congress. Ranting and Raving, and blaming all of the governments/peoples problems on the current Pontus solves nothing. We all share some responsibility for the current situation.

What about TERM LIMITS. Think that might go a little bit of the way towards getting things on the right track?
Wait a minute. The republicans put their offer on the table and the president put his offer on the table. The president refused the republican offer and the republicans refused the presidents offer. Now you're blaming the republicans for the down grade. Why? They did the same thing the president did. The republican's offer had more cuts to the deficit than the president's offer did and met the requirements that S&P set forth weeks prior. Common sense tells me that if the president would have accepted the republican offer we would not have been down graded. But if we would have accepted the presidents offer we would have been downgraded anyway because his offer didn't cut enough. Plus the president wanted to cut defense spending. I don't know about you but it is not a good feeling running out of ammo in a firefight because of defense cuts. I spent 21 years in the military hearing we have to do more with less. Right now while conducting 2 wars is not the time to cut defense spending.