Santorum: Trim Social Security now even if painful

[Moostache]

60. Read about 5 replies on the link to the Freepers...

What is stunning to me is their utter lack of ability to handle even basic math or comprehend the order of magnitude difference between MILLIONS and BILLIONS...

Cutting EPA, NPR, IRS and the rest of their favorite targets would be only short of solving the problem by, oh a few BILLION more than all of that combined. They have been sold a bill of goods that allows them to traffic in nonsense and delusion. Pick something they do not like, spin it to make it a case of those shiftless "blah" people getting some of the white man's money and then send them off to crusade like the idiots they are...

This is not hard to understand - Congress lacked the guts to make the choices they needed to, so they saw the pile of SS cash as being an easy way out. They paid for tax cuts and revenue reductions with money that was not theirs and now the bill is coming due and rather than face the music - the fact is that tax rates MUST rise to historical levels REGARDLESS of whether the programs and agencies of government conservative don't like are cut or not. There is a reason that income tax marginal rates used to be ABOVE 50% for decades and that prosperity was more wide-spread and even than it is now.

I just have little to no hope that ANY our so-called leaders will ever make the moves that could truly fix this nation; they will just keep on lying and kicking the can and hoping they get out of Dodge before the reality shit storm hits in full...