One thing that bothers me is when mainstream conservative voices complain about Obamacare and make it sound like healthcare was great before Obamacare. The truth is that our healthcare system was already screwed up by the government and Obamacare made it worse. Do some research on the cost of healthcare back in the 1950s before the government really started geting involved. You could get health insurance for $50 bucks .. A YEAR!

Slowing the increase in spending to 1% a year and "growing your way out" won't work. Most people don't realize the economy can't grow with artificially low interest rates. We need much higher rates so that people will save money to provide capital loans to businesses. The problem is that higher rates will blow a hole in the budget because of interest payments on the 17 trillion in debt. The only way out of this mess is to slash government spending drastically.

It was an accounting trick. Actually the debt grew every year during the Clinton years. If you want a more accurate measure of the deficit take the difference between the total debt between years. It was lower during those years, just not a surplus.

"Congressional Republicans will stand firm and resist this gimmick until either (a) they get an "offer they can't refuse in terms of smarter, long-term cuts and reforms" When Benson says "smarter, long term cuts" he is part of the problem. We need to cut NOW. We're broke. The only real cuts are the ones that happen in the current year. The fact is both parties are kicking the can down the road.

The sad part was when he felt he had to apologize. Apologize? They're taking 62% from him! Can you blame the guy? And then I keep hearing all these snarky comments from liberals like "Poor Phil, he has to make do on only 3 million". It's his god damn money! Argghhhh that pisses me off.

When the dollar collapses the problem will be solved. There won't be any way to pay for Section 8.

Spending cuts are not cuts unless they happen IN THE CURRENT YEAR. Politicians have proven this over and over. They will always cancel future cuts. Republicans are trying to cancel the scheduled cuts from a year ago in exchange for cuts that occur in 10 years. Democrats don't want to cut at all (they're wrong but at least they're not hypocrites).

Judging from the responses there sure is a lot of class envy out there, even among supposed conservatives.

That's fraud, not insider trading. Insider trading laws are bogus. Anytime 2 people trade something one person knows more about the item traded than the other. It should only be a crime if you lie about the item you are selling.

"With a booming economy we're going to have under Romney, we will have so much money we won't know where to spend it." Romeny can't get us out of the hole we're in. You can't get economic growth without savings. But you can't get savings with zero percent interest rates. But we can't raise interest rates because the 16 trillion in debt would cause the interest payment to skyrocket.