This Is One Scary Clock

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Angry

OK I have done some research. I must say that I was not fully aware of the sitaution. I am not saying that I am an expert either. You guys have a valid point. Calling me a retard and intellectually lazy may not have been the preferred route, but it got my attention.

Anyway, as serious as the deficit is, it is almost foolish to think that anything can be done about it without serious cuts in Defense Spending and SS/Healthcare programs.

Going back to my original post which I ignorantly blurted out, I would like to retract it. I ask this question though "What can really be done, and how much of that can we really do?" We cannot fly a jumbo jet from the toilet seat in the back of the plane.

Props to you for reconsidering your stance, not everyone is willing to do that. There are definitely things we can do to reduce spending but none of them are things everyone in the nation will agree on. They are hard decisions but ones we have to make:

- Increase the Medicare and Social Security eligibility ages.

- Privatize social security so that we can earn a better return on our investments.

- Cut Medicare and/or social security benefits.

- Trim defense spending.

- Cut welfare benefits.

- Trim the prison system via much shorter sentences allowing for prison closures and layoffs.

- Ensure one-time spending tied to Obama's economic recovery act does not repeat itself.

And lots others but those are the biggies.