Paul Ryan is a dickbag

[Drew]

Originally Posted by noodles

I'm not making a case for holding them responsible. I'm simply saying that they need to tow the line hardest, since they have been towing it the least lately. Just put the taxes back to Regan levels (even Clinton cut taxes on the rich) and we'll see a world of difference.

Even you are populist enough to be really pissed off at the idea of your tax burden increasing because a small group of people ruined our economy and budget.

Actually, no, I'm not. Put tax rates at or near Reagan levels for the rich, sure, but even under pre-Reagan rates we were still running deficits.

I'm less interested in pointing fingers and laying blame than I am at not going broke as a nation.

[noodles]

Originally Posted by Drew

I'm less interested in pointing fingers and laying blame than I am at not going broke as a nation.

The problem with this attitude is that we take it every single time the economy tanks. No one wants to talk about who is responsible or what did it, they just want it go back to being right. I'm about accountability and judicial process. We need to make the penalty so steep that no one will want to irresponsibly wreck the economy again.

Moot point, since we *have* gone broke as a nation, and it won't ever get fixed. Just do what I do: try not to think about it, and don't plan for a retirement that will never happen. Oh, and learn to speak Chinese.