If we don't raise taxes and cut unnecessary spending we will go down the toilet, economically. The bush tax cuts are responsible for much of our current debt along with 2 wars that should never been paid for by borrowing. The current GOP is fiscally destroying the GDP, Its called shared sacrifice to rescue the country. The rich 1st, followed by the rest of us have to help get our debt under control
If I keep reading the advice of those who are saying we should give Barack Obama what he wants, let him take the American economy into the quicksand and make him own it, I am going to be tempted to agree.
So I’m going to stop reading such things.
With respect to those who offer that strategy, it is flawed on multiple levels. It may not work, it would confuse people about what conservatism is and what it does, and it would slam the brakes on our most valuable passion right now-- the desire to save what we can...
And Medicare alone loses about as much every year to fraud and waste as the wars cost to finance.
Read something besides left wing tal