Reply #9: Grossly overweight man promises to cut rate of weight gain in half [View All]

[dolstein]

Seriously, if someone walked into a doctor's office weighing, say, 400 lbs, would a doctor prescribe a weight loss regimen that merely reduced the amount of weight the patient was gaining each year from 100 lbs to 50 lbs? I think not.

Cutting the size of the annual deficit doesn't do a damn thing to cut the size of the national debt. We have to eliminate the deficit, produce a surplus, and pay down the national debt. And the Republicans don't have a clue as to how to do that, because they refuse to consider increasing taxes (even though income tax revenue as a share of GDP is at its lowest point in nearly 50 years).