Soon to be 21 trillion in dept. Can we continue the current coarse?

Do establishment polititions have a history of steering this ship in a financially responsible direction be it Republican or Democrat?

I'd just like to say I just bought a 14 acre Ranch and paid cash for it at a mere 48 years of age. I am now semi retired and living the good life all because I'm an uneducated stupid phugger with 1/10 the wit of our highly educated establishment polititions who cannot govern within our countries means. It really is pretty phuggin easy!

Is it possible that an ordinary stupid phugger would make a better president or financial advisor? Maybe I'll run for president!

Rock On!








Shod

Way too reasonable, you'll never get an endorsement.

I'll endorse him!

Fireball, Realistically I'm not interested in presidential endeavors. I would like to however open the floor for campfire nominees!

My nomination goes to Flave!

The floor is now open






Shod

One[and only one] current presidential candidate kept touching on this last summer.
"Soon to be 21 trillion in dept. Can we continue the current coarse? "

The primary reason that I am pulling for Trump.

Shod: YOU, could NOT, do any worse than the horror that is barrack hussein obama!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

You're talking about Rand Paul....right....

I'm for sending all these azzholes home and tell them to go fishing, mow their yards, and play mumbley peg....but DON'T DO anything but maintain national security and fix the roads/bridges!!

Right.......

Hadn't heard much from Cruz about it though.
I mean it TRULY is the biggest threat to America right now.

It is politically impossible to cut spending. 1/2 of our budget is Social Security and Medicare. You CAN"T touch that!

Try to cut either of those and your ass is out the door at the speed of light. The only place you can get votes to cut the budget is military spending. The Left thinks that all of our money goes to the military, and they hate that idea and all for cutting it to zero.

Whatcha going to cut that won't get you thrown out of office that will have a meaningful effect? I'm talking about hundreds of billions, not $50 million here or there.

If you could freeze spending and encourage the economy to grow, you could grow your way out of it in a decade or two. I don't see that happening.

Entitlements have screwed us but good.

A portion of the Open Borders nuts think that allowing a huge wave of younger immigrants in to work would make up for the huge numbers of Baby Boomers retiring. Young pay into SS and Medicare and the Baby Boomers are taking it out. More youngers working, then more oney to pay the BBers. Problem with that idea is the immigrants are taking more out that they will ever put in, and they will retire and want SS and MC.

We're screwed.

It is politically impossible to cut spending.
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We part ways there, amigo!

What do you ranch...gerbils?

OK, tell me how to touch welfare, SS and Medicare without getting flamed into a crispy critter?

A trillion bucks per year of debt, and you can't touch 50% of the budget?

Go to this pie chart, and show me where you can slash and politically survive, not just you, but your Party.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_budget_pie_chart


If I'm in the opposition Party, and you slash anything other than military spending, I can find 100 ways to win a landslide for my Party in the next election. Then I undo all of your cuts, and the socialists rejoice.

If you have a good idea, bring it on, I'm interested.

You must be a Trump supporter.

It's not sustainable, but politicians are betting they can kick the can down the road long enough to get theirs.

Hatari is right, there isn't enough of the budget that's touchable to make a difference even if you cut it to zero. Entitlements are such a massive part of the budget that they're impossible to rein in. The majority of government spending is entitlements and there's a bunch more that are hidden behind cute names like "earned income tax credit" so they don't have to call them welfare, though that's exactly what it is. You could completely eliminate defense and still not come close to knocking down the national debt.

I don't know when it's going to come crashing down, hopefully not in my lifetime, but it will eventually.