What Congress Should Cut

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Not necessarily true...the only thing businesses care about is making more money. If there is a cog in their system that costs too much to employ then it's getting tossed out.
The fed on the other hand, though like a big corporation, is also involved heavily in politics and that skews how they should act as a business.

[telcoman]

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Thats an interetsing proposal. I'd like to see more details.

You won't see details from the GOP because they don't have any.
Did you ever see any details about a replacement health care bill.
Will they propose and pass a new better bill prior to repealing the one passed last year.
I don't think so.
As for spending cuts, the only cuts they propose is cutting for the middle class.
No cuts for the rich in this country. I don't see any GOP members giving up their government provided healthcare.
Let the corrupt healthcare and drug companies make more money and withhold benefits.Under the current healthcare bill they are required to pay out 85% of premium dollars collected.
The GOP policy is the same and holds true for banks and financial services. Little or no regulation screw the customer. Cut the police, firemen, healthcare workers, teachers,education. Thats the GOP way!

Telcoman

[audtatious]

Fred, ignore telcoman. He likes to throw out one liners he picks up from HuffPo or Kos as fact without being able to back it up himself. Show him an alternative viewpoint and it's ignored or responded with more one liners. It's not worth the effort.

[IBCoupe]

House GOP group proposes $2.5T in budget cuts

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... -/1?csp=hf

I saw that, Greg, and I think it's more accurately described as a $250B spending freeze for ten years. Matt's right - they're going to have to dig deeper. This wasn't really a solution at all.

[audtatious]

Those who are wealthy enough to not need it should not receive it. Those who have enough to "get by" without it (or have other benefits packages that sustain them) should get no more than they paid into it. It should NOT be expanded in any way.

Of those two groups, I don't see them disagreeing as they are aware of the problems. We will need Congress to stop pulling tax revenue and using it for discretionary spending as well.

The above is just a start. I don't see Congress getting that far though.

[IBCoupe]

Ok, so furthering my ugly traveling analogy, lets assume scientists are given the task of determining where I had dinner, and based on the assumption (best guess) that I passed through Kansas City around dinner time, they formulate a hypothesis that I ate at the Western Sizzler in Kansas City for dinner. Only later we discover I never passed through Kansas City to begin with. Only now theres a whole generation of poor school kids endoctrinated to believe I at at Western Sizzler, Kansas City.

There's your major problem. I dont have a problem with making first level theories, and working to prove or disprove them. The problem comes in when you start increases the unstable foundation by adding levels of unproven, upon lower levels of unproven.

Stebo, you appear to confuse the words "theory" and "hypothesis." In scientific terms, "theoretical" does not mean "our best guess yet."

[IBCoupe]

Those who are wealthy enough to not need it should not receive it. Those who have enough to "get by" without it (or have other benefits packages that sustain them) should get no more than they paid into it. It should NOT be expanded in any way.

Of those two groups, I don't see them disagreeing as they are aware of the problems. We will need Congress to stop pulling tax revenue and using it for discretionary spending as well.

The above is just a start. I don't see Congress getting that far though.

I tried figuring out what exactly you're referring to. Social Security? If so, I'm with you 100%. The point of it was to keep from starving the portions of our population who were too old to work. If you're in no danger of starving (or whatever we call the baseline), then let's not send you a check.

[audtatious]

Yes, Social Security....Sorry, got distra....

Hey, did you see that bird fly by?