Presidential debate # 3

[Tallpine]

Living in/around the District of Criminals has got to be pretty expensive.

I envy neither their salary nor their neighborhood.

[drewtam]

@birdman

Yup, I forgot to mention the time limit for the extra tax.

[birdman]

NoVa is pretty damn nice...but expensive.

[Fitz]

NoVa is pretty damn lame...and expensive. And the traffic is *expletive deleted*it

Ftfy

[birdman]

Ftfy

Yes...carpooling to work with me driving was SOOOO bad :-P

[Fitz]

Yes...carpooling to work with me driving was SOOOO bad :-P

You forget that I didn't always do that.

Plus any time I had things to do outside of work.

Seems any time I go up that way to take care of something I get stuck in godawful traffic ... Even on a weekend afternoon

[Fitz]

I miss our commutes though.


Even though my current commute (15 minute back road blast) rocks

[Scout26]

Were I POTUS or SECDEF.  I would demand a 10% cut yearly of the 5-Sided Puzzle Palace.  Not Defense, just within the walls of the Pentagon.  (Now if you want to send those folks/slots out to line units (as in beef up or make more), I'd be good with that.  There are far to many high ranking officers (and enlisted) running around the Pentagon.  I'd close-up all the offices in one entire side of that building.

Same with the rest of the .gov.  Get rid of DOE (both of them), along with a few others, a phase out, over say over 4 years.  While the rest of the .gov has to reduce by 10% each year.  And if you can't find 10% to cut without cutting those that, you know, actually deal with the US taxpayer (like Park Rangers, and VA Docs and Nurses) then you're fired and and I find a new Cabinet member to do the job.  (BTW, the VA gets put under the DOD.  Once you join the DOD is "responsible" for you, until you die, and then they're responsible for your grave.)

[Strings]

And you aren't running WHY?

Scout has my vote!

[Waitone]

There isn't a business in this country that could not sustain an immediate 10% across the board budget cut.  Business can do it; gov't should be able to comfortably do it.  Once the cuts have been booked come back with a second 10% across the board cut.  Then we can investigate structural changes such as getting out of student loans, medical insurance, home loans, loan guarantees, or loans to government at interest. 

[Ben]

The problem is that businesses look to cut the fat, while government goes out of its way to put the meat on the chopping block. Whether it's local government threatening to cut police and fire instead of the ten "backup assistant superintendents in charge of EEO and diversity" or federal government threatening to cut navigation charting instead of 27,346 "Coordinators in charge of coordination and plan planning".

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

yup^^^  wish it were not true

[longeyes]

There isn't a business in this country that could not sustain an immediate 10% across the board budget cut.  Business can do it; gov't should be able to comfortably do it.  Once the cuts have been booked come back with a second 10% across the board cut.  Then we can investigate structural changes such as getting out of student loans, medical insurance, home loans, loan guarantees, or loans to government at interest. 

This.  Bring the chain-saw.

[ronnyreagan]

There isn't a business in this country that could not sustain an immediate 10% across the board budget cut.

 
Are you living in a different county? I thought small business were hanging on by the skin of their teeth and any additional strain (such as taxes) would wreak havoc and destroy what little recovery we've had.