PhDeac
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The problem, I think, is encapsulated by the Mittster:
"HALPERIN: You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to reduce spending dramatically. Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?
ROMNEY: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course. What you do is you make adjustments on a basis that show, in the first year, actions that over time get you to a balanced budget."
Right now, the patient needs medicine. The patient does not need medicine for all time. But discourse generally stays on the level of asking if the medicine itself is intrinsically good or bad, and not on diagnosing the patient.
Well said. I'll add to the metaphor that it seems like for most major illnesses, the medicine isn't just one thing, it is several medications, a cocktail administered in a specific manner over a set amount of time. Saying "Yet all he wants to talk about is raising 50 billion in taxes to solve a much more massive problem. It's so sad its funny" is ridiculous because $50B is a very good start. We have to use a lot of different strategies to manage the debt problem.