From a pragmatic perspective, we’re going to lose either way.

So why not go down fighting?

here’s my quote – “a broad mind and a narrow waist change places as you grow older”

The deficit is not about numbers. The debt is beyond numbers. It is an intergenerational moral problem beyond any fiscal situation we’ve ever faced.

Rather than face it with the realism that we are in over our skis–that we face an unsolvable problem, fiscally, politically, and really, that we can never solve with our current attitude–we continue to fund a “reality” that is utterly unsustainable.

We have a tough choice to make. We can either realize that we are on an utterly unsustainable path, cut spending to a sustainable limit, and bicker about the final details, or we can continue to argue while we maintain an unsustainable path whereby no amount of productivity, no solution, and no “reality” can ever drag us from the hole we’ve created, as human beings and citizens of the United States.

Our generation has absolutely no hope if we do not solve this problem. The next world superpower will either laugh at the arrogance that has become the U.S. national debt, or envy us for the political fortitude that solves this terrible and difficult political problem.

Rather than bicker about the details, my view is that we do our best to solve this problem today instead of tomorrow. Unfortunately, the political will resides with the ability to push this on further generations, who will find this problem even more agonizing that we do. It is disgusting to me that we cry about unemployment, entitlement, and expected benefits while we continue to underfund this liability. Regardless, my intuition suggests that my generation will continue to ignore this problem, and in doing so, will make the United States the laughing stock of the world that lived within its means for long enough to surpass us.

We have tough decisions to make….and right now, at this instant, we will decide. I hope we do so carefully.

This president, truly put bipartisanship at the top of his agenda; the result- a major loss of political capital, and a public sick of the initiative.

Your comments on tort reform are enlightening, this is a good article.

So much stale rhetoric is being thrown around.

Thank you for setting some of the facts straight

Regardless Sen Bunning made a fool of himself and added to the, as Kevin so eloquently put it, the clusterf*ck that is congress right now.