dorminWS wrote:You said it yourself. You have a union because the government allows (in fact, encourages) it. But they do not allow one in the military. That's because even the damned government knows the military couldn't function with a union. The record is clear. The rest of the government is not functioning, either. Time to trim ALL the deadwood.
As to whether it will happen; if you're right and things must play out to the bitter end, we'll see how long they hang around after the paychecks start bouncing.
If Romney does get elected, we can all at least dream that he'll wield the meat-axe like he's caught so much grief for doing at Bain Capital. He demonstrably knows what to do - if he'll do it and if he's allowed to. Failing in that, at some point during the sinking of the ship somebody will get desperate enough to do the right thing, but in that case you'd almost certainly be right - it will be too late.
Time will tell. I keep hearing from republicans how the government should run like a household or business in regards to its debt problems. Not sure about anyone else, but if I were in debt yes I'd cut my spending to reduce the outflow of capital, but I'd also take on more work to increase my inflow of capital. The analogy of course is cut spending raise taxes.
Not too long ago every Republican primary candidate said they'd reject a spending plan that raised taxes $1 for every $10 in cuts.
No one likes taxes, but the truth is to right this ship to even just to buy time they're gonna have to be a part of the solution to paying off the carefree debt of the last century.
Given the aversion to taxes there really can be no solution even with a meat axe Pres. Romney and a Republican controlled house and senate; the debt will still grow and eventual collapse is just as inevitable as under Obamas record spending, it just will take longer.
Best case scenario IMO is a federal default and a do over with a barebones government that cannot rack up debt like this one did over the generations. This would leave minimal transitional pain and I stand by my claim the states would prevent anarchy or such.
And yes, on topic, Mohammed was a kiddy diddler. Nowadays he'd have someone lobbying to make it legal in America.
Cue the general pandemonium (which we both feel is nearly inevitable at this late date).
