Quote Originally Posted by RoadToad View Post
There's one thing I don't quite understand. You speak as though the Democrats have refused to make any spending cuts, which is not true. The Democrats are willing to compromise and make spending cuts, but think they need to be accompanied by some tax increases. It's the Republicans who have refused to compromise, citing Grover Norquist's tax pledge that they've all signed, and which has them all by the cojones. As I recall, "the same America we've always had" is one in which both sides compromise, which the Republicans, not the Democrats, are refusing to do. Like I said before, I don't want to let the Democrats off the hook, because the scope of the cuts needs to be larger than they seem to be comfortable with, but they're at least willing to TALK about cuts. As soon as the tax increases get mentioned (which are inevitable), the Republicans close their ears.
Neither party has tried for the cuts that are needed, but the GOP is the lesser of the evils by far. The Dems will go 10 billion less than current spending levels, the GOP wants 61 billion. Neither is nearly enough.

Here's a couple of links backing up what I say, one from the left and one from the right.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_831937.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...480567882.html

Tax increases on anyone be they rich or poor is not necessary. The federal government already collects taxes on almost everything, especially income, and they have no business collecting more. America is T axed E nough A lready.

The federal government needs to start eliminating entire departments. Every silly axed czar of anything and their staffs need to be gone. Homeland Security...gone. Dept of Education...gone. Some other major agencies and hundreds of smaller duplicitous agencies...gone. Foreign aid handouts...gone. Obamacare...gone. Lobbyists, be they right, left, or in the middle...gone. Cut the pay of federal government employees (averaging over 100k a year right now) by 20%, and have them pay for benefits like the rest if us do.

Maybe I sound like some kind of a wingnut, but if an average citizen handled money like OUR government, they'd be bankrupt in 3 months.