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Re: Prudent Capitalist post# 701

Thursday, 02/21/2013 5:56:47 PM

Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:56:47 PM

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That's your opinion.

I do not agree with it. The deficit is a bipartisan adventure that includes the unfunded costs of multiple wars that were unbudgeted for >8 years. Obama is a small part of the problem. Decades of "kicking the can down the road" by both parties is the root cause and, IMHO, will not be remediated until the PAC money/major campaign donor spending edge is eventually wiped out when enough Congressional recipients get voted out of office, once and for all. This, to me, means a clearance of both sides of the aisle at mid-term.

Blaming the constituents of "entitlements" for the bad math of the budget is a convenient pro-forma for decimating Medicare, Medicaid and VA benefits, but that "solution" ignores the statistical TRUTH that as the Baby Boomers die off, the expense for them also evaporates and the survivors find a much more level playing field. The debate is not how we bridge the statistically challenging years, but more how the extremely wealthy avoid paying anything to the generation that saved their butts by freeing America from Axis domination, using the "cost" as a sick rationale to short-shrift their parents and grandparents so they can buy a bigger yacht or imported luxury car under the popular guise of Tea Party budget reform.

GLTA,

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