In response to:
1: Collective Credit Card - currently with a $16 Trillion limit.
2: Liberals might support balanced budgets, but the past four years have proven the Dems do not support any budget.
3: Efficient governments are normally SMALL and easy to manage.
4: Wasteful spending, requires the limitation of multiple agencies doing the same task. Also everyone in the government should be treated the same, civilian and military. No unionization. You work for the government then you get to live in government housing, use government medical facilities, and shopping/ dining facilities. Otherwise you receive an allowance based on where you live. Sounds ridiculous, join the military.
5: the government budget needs to be treated as a household budget.
The United States is scheduled to hit the debt ceiling again as early as December, setting up a showdown between House Republicans and the White House about not only raising the debt ceiling, but by how much. Last summer Congress and the White House faced the same issue and gave it a temporary resolution by slapping a bandaid on it. Now, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is already weighing in on this round of debt limit talks, saying the United States should eliminate the debt ceiling altogether.
On Bloomberg TV, “Political Capital” host Al Hunt asked Geithner if...
I do not enjoy supporting those that could support themselves, all they need to do is go work. If that means a job shoveling s_it, or picking cabbage in 95f heat, so be it. Otherwise you give me your bank info and do not complain when I use it.