Letter: Got a better plan?

This is in response to the Nov. 1 editorial “In Our View: It Is Broke, So Fix It.”

We are in huge financial trouble and once again a deal was made to give a president and Congress an open checkbook with no announced offsetting concessions to limit spending anywhere. You commented that the result was “imperfect,” but a “perfectly acceptable compromise.” Since when is it a compromise when one side gets everything they want?

If we could not print money, we would already be in the same default situation as Europe.

It is obvious at this point both parties are “broke” and have zero incentive to cut costs because now over 50 percent of the voting public is “addicted” to government funds.

Threat (and actual) government shutdown has been successfully used several times over the last 70-plus years to bring things back into some sense of balance.

Something drastic is needed at this point. It seems our only hope is a “small but powerful faction” holding their ground to get at least some spending limits passed.

If you don’t have a better plan, then don’t complain.