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QuoteHowever, holding onto the idea that any party will have the discipline to balance the budget and begin paying down the debt is a fool's errand. The second a party cuts entitlements all those fine citizens who call for fiscal discipline will throw that party out of office.What people mean when they say they want fiscal discipline is they want someone else's benefit, or program, cut. @bilo Sad,but too true. Anytime you butt heads with human nature chances are you are going to lose,and the number 1 dictate of human nature is "screw YOU,ME first!"We are all willing,sometimes with a little regret,to see someone else suffer "for the good of the country",but not US.
However, holding onto the idea that any party will have the discipline to balance the budget and begin paying down the debt is a fool's errand. The second a party cuts entitlements all those fine citizens who call for fiscal discipline will throw that party out of office.What people mean when they say they want fiscal discipline is they want someone else's benefit, or program, cut.
Then we are well and truly doomed. And anything else you might busy yourselves with is merely rearranging deck chairs. Thus your position is wholly incoherent and inconsistent...
