tennvols77
Lurker
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2008
- Messages
- 4,144
- Likes
- 4,702
Priorities and accountability. With these 2, we can be on our way to a low and controllable and workable debt of less than 5 trillion, if we chose to. It really isn't complicated, we need to prioritize and hold the people accountable who are spending. Also, many citizens can't and won't allow it.
Waste alone, with corruption, can be damn near eliminated, we must work to make it so. Just as with WWII, we need to suck it up for a little, and put the resources needed to work, and cut out the ones that are not truly important in a time of calamity.
There are more than enough articles out there about waste and corruption, and bad spending. Go read for a day or two, you'll quickly see.
We aren't holding the government accountable, and we allow the continual spiral.
Another problem is, the people can't and won't allow it. "What do you mean the government isn't going to fund NPR and planned parenthood and the arts and the ridiculous grants to study frog mating in the month of October...?" Too many people can't handle the reality needed to eliminate debt, their little hearts would explode when the money allocated to every college and university is taken away for a few years. And when the local art gallery can't put on it's show of local under privileged starving artists.
But, make no mistake, if we chose to make it a priority, it can be done. No different than that of personal choice with personal finances. You got debt, guess what, you have to make it the priority. No more eating out, no more clothes shopping, no more newest gadget, eat bologna and bread and pay your debt off. You choice to not change what you want versus need is the problem, same for the government.
Waste alone, with corruption, can be damn near eliminated, we must work to make it so. Just as with WWII, we need to suck it up for a little, and put the resources needed to work, and cut out the ones that are not truly important in a time of calamity.
There are more than enough articles out there about waste and corruption, and bad spending. Go read for a day or two, you'll quickly see.
We aren't holding the government accountable, and we allow the continual spiral.
Another problem is, the people can't and won't allow it. "What do you mean the government isn't going to fund NPR and planned parenthood and the arts and the ridiculous grants to study frog mating in the month of October...?" Too many people can't handle the reality needed to eliminate debt, their little hearts would explode when the money allocated to every college and university is taken away for a few years. And when the local art gallery can't put on it's show of local under privileged starving artists.
But, make no mistake, if we chose to make it a priority, it can be done. No different than that of personal choice with personal finances. You got debt, guess what, you have to make it the priority. No more eating out, no more clothes shopping, no more newest gadget, eat bologna and bread and pay your debt off. You choice to not change what you want versus need is the problem, same for the government.
