Showing posts with label Budget cuts and righting a sinking ship.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget cuts and righting a sinking ship.. Show all posts

Monday, February 28, 2011

Budget Cuts.



Only a blithering idiot would deny the need for immediate cuts in the Federal budget to save our economy and our nation from economic ruin.  Our State governments are also dealing with the need to cut spending by trimming fat from their budgets too.  However, a variety of idiots, from numerous organizations designed to bleed the profits to benefit a few, are showing themselves as mindless, selfish, whiners.

Let me make this perfectly clear.  Cuts are going to happen whether we like them or not.  If we don't take control of our finances voluntarily, the rules and pressures common to all financial homeostasis will kick in automatically with disastrous results for everyone in this generation and for many generations to come.  The problem with allowing this to happen is the uncontrollable nature of the resulting consequences.

Here is the plan proposed by our president;

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/visual-analogy-to-obamas-100-million.html


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