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Durbin: Entitlement Reform is "On the Table," Just Don't Mention Any Specific Ideas

T172 Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 12:08 PM

There was a good article, I can't remember where I read it (salon or slate maybe?), but basically two guys and a grad student figured out how to balance the federal budget with and without extending the bush tax cuts. It raised the entitlement eligibility age to 67, it cut about 40 billion from the military, ended a few government programs, and bam balanced budget. They said was it perfect? Heck no. But it took 3 people less than a day to find a reasonable solution. Why can't these guys figure anything out?

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Michael2677 Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 12:14 PM

the word "naive" doesn't even begin to explain that

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T172 Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 12:17 PM

Naive about politicians balancing the budget?

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Durbin: Entitlement Reform is "On the Table," Just Don't Mention Any Specific Ideas

You will invariably hear over the coming weeks that our politics are broken because these damned Republicans refuse to compromise on anything. This narrative, to put it bluntly, is a lie. John Boehner reportedly offered hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenues during debt deal negotiations last summer (only to have Obama pull the rug out from under him), as did the GOP contingent on the 'Super Committee.' Democrats shut down that plan, too, then refused to offer a single unified counter-proposal. Sensing that they've backed their opponents into a corner in this dispute, liberals are aggressively...

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