This audience is of above average intelligence, yet there's clear evidence in this thread that many here don't understand the federal budget. How anyone here could not know the fundamentals of Soc Sec is bewildering.
If this group doesn't 'get it,' imagine the knowledge base the broader electorate is basing their votes on? It's not a question of whether we can work out the math to reduce or eliminate our deficits, but a majority would have to have a clue about the math to do so...it doesn't seem we have a majority (yet).
As many have pointed out before, in the end we want someone else to pay more taxes and someone else to be impacted by spending cuts - that math won't work, there are not enough
someone else's! We like to blame the politicians, but the collective electorate is equally to blame.
Did anyone learn anything from the article