This country would save a vast amount of cash

[texastoast]

If we would only

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[el_bryanto]

2. Tricky proposition just now I suppose.

It's one thing if everything is horrible, and it's another if things are going smooth. In the former you cut your losses, and in the later you arne't needed anymore. In the current situation, I suppose the Washington Consenseus is that we could still win something over there.

Bryant

[Newest Reality]

3. It appears that this country,

or those who represent big business, only use the idea of saving cash and cutting deficits as a means to place a greater burden on those who are not the recipients of profit and are bereft of any meaningful power. The poor and the middle-class are not to receive anything beneficial unless it has a bottom-line value to the Oligarchy.

They can whip-up our concerns about a huge, national debt that we supposedly owe and thereby evoke a sense of economic duty and pragmatism while that misplaced fervor only translates into grease for cutting off social responsibility at the neck. There will be a price to us all, but when you sit up high in the ivory tower of profit and power, they all look like ants, anyway.