"Both parties are advocating default" - David Stockman

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

No it has the potential to but under this administration would be burned.

That's your imagination and ODS talking.

Now just imagine if the taxes cutting the debt by about 1/3 to 1/2 in ten years were matched by an equal cut in spending.

Yeah, but that's not gonna happen, because we don't want to go back to putting old people on the street to die without medical care.

Oh, wait, no, that's not true - that is exactly the Republican budget plan for Medicare

Your ideas are noble, but like Rand and Ron Paul, completely unworkable in real life.

As an aside, do you read any political history books? Any objective histories of the different administrations? Perhaps you would find them interesting. A good current one is, "Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves" by Andrew Ross Sorkin. It's pretty inexpensive on Amazon.