We don't have a revenue problem, ...

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by whell

If the guy, wherever he works, drives a Ferarri to and from work but is on a Ford Taurus budget, he's got a spending problem. I'm expected to live within my means, and I sometimes need to adjust my spending accordingly to do that. Why can't Uncle Sam?

This is all way off the mark. That's not what it is at all. It's not a job and spending thing. It's a buying and paying for it thing. We (American voters) walked up to the counter and said "I'll take a Social Security, a Medicare, a Medicaid, aaaaannnd, let's seee- how 'bout a side order of wars in the middle-east". Then the kid at the counter said "Oooookay. That'll be $100 Billion." And we refused to pay.