You are at the store spending money.Your credit card is maxed.You call the credit company and they raise your limit sufficently so you won’t max out until February 7th at your current rate of spending.You do nothing to change how you spend….
@nantucket19Raise Taxes… raise taxes… that is all you libs can say. How about we CUT spending! Including military, but not JUST militay. Keep you hands out of my pockets and buck up…live within YOUR means!
1) We must not spend, especially a lot more, on education without having meaningful impact on the educational outcomes of our children.2) We must more to avoid wars? On what? How? 3) How will upgrading infrastructure abate the rising costs of transportation? Fuel doesn’t get cheaper because you’re driving on a new road. Your car doesn’t get more fuel efficient because it’s crossing a river on a new bridge instead of an old bridge. Your logic is flawed.@ Nantucket: Raising taxes on capital gains will restrict investment in the marketplace. I don’t disagree with cutting DOD funding, but like another said, there should be no sacred cow (Republican or Democrat) that is spared from cuts. Why is there no mention of entitlement reform? Foodstamps is being abused. The unemployment insurance funds have been raided and abused. SS at its current state is unsustainable, and will get worse once the Boomers fully retire. More and more issues are coming to a head. For those who think SS shouldn’t be reformed, how many of us use a computer made in the 50’s? For those who think Medicare shouldn’t be touched, why don’t you dial the operator to make an outbound call? For those who think that unemployment doesn’t need fixing, do you still support prohibition?The point I’m trying to make is many of these programs we have on the books are operating under a ruleset that was drafted at a much different time. Our economy has evolved, our workforce has changed, and yet we’re still providing catch-all services drafted 50-70 years ago. When SS was first rolled out, the expectation is that people would be on it for 5-7 years, with 13 people paying in for every person paying out. Now, people are drawing from SS for 15-20 years on average, and we are down to 3 people paying in for every one person drawing out. But we are still operating SS under the same rules from 70 years ago. It is broken. It’s not an issue of people not paying their, “fair share” into the fund. It’s an issue of people living longer and fewer people paying in than are drawing out. It’s simple math, and this issue is just one of the many that needs resolving. But these are elephants in the room that no-one wants to discuss because it endangers their chances at re-election. The cowardice in Washington is the true crime here.
So, there’s a correlation between spending on education and outcomes now is there?Last I checked there was none.As for incarceration about 15% of the US prison population is illegal aliens. Education won’t fix that unless it is to educate US citizens to the seriousness of that problem….Also, as shown repeatedly spending on education has a much weaker relationship to incarceration than poverity and single parent families do. Maybe we should work on those first..This one is just nuts. Spend more to avoid costly wars?! How does one avoid a war some other nation starts? I could see you making the statement we need to not start wars because they are costly, but that is a different thing than what you stated..Transportation costs are rising primarily because of government regulation and the cost of energy. Between OSHA, the NHTSA, EPA, DOT, and a plethora of other “alphabet soup” they are the primary drivers of higher costs..States take care of the majority of the transportation infrastructure as most roads and other transport modes are not federally owned or controlled.
The “ceiling” indeed does NOT increase debt, but things like F-35s and wars do, as do all those high interest rates, paid to BANKS which happen to supply the board members on the Federal Reserve!
As to “costs” of social programs: My dad literally died ten minutes after opening his first Social Security check, didn’t even get to cash it- the Republican “dream case”. My mom on the other hand, is now 101 years old, and the reason why Republicans hate the ACA potential to expand life expectancy. It IS interesting that Mom is also a prime “TEA party Republican”, and always has been. Like most of them, it’s when OTHER PEOPLE collect that it’s a disgrace!
WestNYC Premium Member over 10 years ago
Obama is still smoking. The press believed the fibs about him quitting.
Enoki over 10 years ago
You are at the store spending money.Your credit card is maxed.You call the credit company and they raise your limit sufficently so you won’t max out until February 7th at your current rate of spending.You do nothing to change how you spend….
dan.hagerty over 10 years ago
@nantucket19Raise Taxes… raise taxes… that is all you libs can say. How about we CUT spending! Including military, but not JUST militay. Keep you hands out of my pockets and buck up…live within YOUR means!
Wraithkin over 10 years ago
1) We must not spend, especially a lot more, on education without having meaningful impact on the educational outcomes of our children.2) We must more to avoid wars? On what? How? 3) How will upgrading infrastructure abate the rising costs of transportation? Fuel doesn’t get cheaper because you’re driving on a new road. Your car doesn’t get more fuel efficient because it’s crossing a river on a new bridge instead of an old bridge. Your logic is flawed.@ Nantucket: Raising taxes on capital gains will restrict investment in the marketplace. I don’t disagree with cutting DOD funding, but like another said, there should be no sacred cow (Republican or Democrat) that is spared from cuts. Why is there no mention of entitlement reform? Foodstamps is being abused. The unemployment insurance funds have been raided and abused. SS at its current state is unsustainable, and will get worse once the Boomers fully retire. More and more issues are coming to a head. For those who think SS shouldn’t be reformed, how many of us use a computer made in the 50’s? For those who think Medicare shouldn’t be touched, why don’t you dial the operator to make an outbound call? For those who think that unemployment doesn’t need fixing, do you still support prohibition?The point I’m trying to make is many of these programs we have on the books are operating under a ruleset that was drafted at a much different time. Our economy has evolved, our workforce has changed, and yet we’re still providing catch-all services drafted 50-70 years ago. When SS was first rolled out, the expectation is that people would be on it for 5-7 years, with 13 people paying in for every person paying out. Now, people are drawing from SS for 15-20 years on average, and we are down to 3 people paying in for every one person drawing out. But we are still operating SS under the same rules from 70 years ago. It is broken. It’s not an issue of people not paying their, “fair share” into the fund. It’s an issue of people living longer and fewer people paying in than are drawing out. It’s simple math, and this issue is just one of the many that needs resolving. But these are elephants in the room that no-one wants to discuss because it endangers their chances at re-election. The cowardice in Washington is the true crime here.
Enoki over 10 years ago
So, there’s a correlation between spending on education and outcomes now is there?Last I checked there was none.As for incarceration about 15% of the US prison population is illegal aliens. Education won’t fix that unless it is to educate US citizens to the seriousness of that problem….Also, as shown repeatedly spending on education has a much weaker relationship to incarceration than poverity and single parent families do. Maybe we should work on those first..This one is just nuts. Spend more to avoid costly wars?! How does one avoid a war some other nation starts? I could see you making the statement we need to not start wars because they are costly, but that is a different thing than what you stated..Transportation costs are rising primarily because of government regulation and the cost of energy. Between OSHA, the NHTSA, EPA, DOT, and a plethora of other “alphabet soup” they are the primary drivers of higher costs..States take care of the majority of the transportation infrastructure as most roads and other transport modes are not federally owned or controlled.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
The “ceiling” indeed does NOT increase debt, but things like F-35s and wars do, as do all those high interest rates, paid to BANKS which happen to supply the board members on the Federal Reserve!
As to “costs” of social programs: My dad literally died ten minutes after opening his first Social Security check, didn’t even get to cash it- the Republican “dream case”. My mom on the other hand, is now 101 years old, and the reason why Republicans hate the ACA potential to expand life expectancy. It IS interesting that Mom is also a prime “TEA party Republican”, and always has been. Like most of them, it’s when OTHER PEOPLE collect that it’s a disgrace!
lonecat over 10 years ago
Hey, I don’t know about you, but I’m aiming for 70. (And not that long to go.)