Our government is $14.4 trillion in debt — increasing hourly. The mushrooming interest payments will soon become so enormous that there’s little revenue left for such things as Social Security, Medicare, etc. It’s either reduce entitlements or lose it all. Reducing “discretionary spending” isn’t enough. President Obama calls that trivial $38.5 billion spending cut “the largest annual spending cut in our history.” This historic spending cut is only about two percent of the $1.6 trillion deficit for 2011.
Entitlements, like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc., (two-thirds of the federal budget) must be drastically reduced. Honest congressmen, courageously doing what’s best for America, are demonized by the Democrat/media complex and voted out of office.
I’m 91 years old, living on Social Security, yet I’d get by with a 30 percent — even 50 percent — cut in Social Security and Medicare. To demand there be no cuts would be selfish and irresponsible.
Robert Wassman
Vancouver
