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[quote=Anonymous]Deficits in any budget, personal or country, are not what anyone would call good.  However, they can be manageable and sustainable and a normal part of business if done right. Particular if they ebb up and down in meaningful ways.

The U.S. deficit in and of itself hasn’t been a problem because the U.S. has/had the ability to pay the interest on the loans.  But like any deficit it should be paid attention to and plans made to lower it or eliminate it as best as possible.  When you get to trillions of dollars in deficit, that is not something that will be rectified over night so you have to put together strategic meaningful plans to address.

Much of the root of the U.S. deficit is Medicaid/Medicare,  Defense Spending, and not enough taxes to cover overall spending.  The biggest root of this is not doing a new budget each year and instead doing CRs.

The U.S. spends more in defense than the next 20 industrial countries combined.  This needs to change.  Do we need to maintain a strong and capable military, sure.  Do we need to pay for improvements and research, sure. But, manufacturing war and shipping it around the globe needs to change drastically.

Social Security despite what is said is a fully funded program. It’s an “entitlement” becuase folks are actually entitled to it because they paid into it aka they worked. Its future is not sustainable because people are living longer and not everybody is paying enough based on what they will collect.  This is a solvable situation as long as people come together to alter the funding algorithm and move forward.

Medicaid and Medicare are by far the most efficient and effective insurance programs. Like many other things in our country’s budget they are hamstrung by people’s unwillingness to change as times change and greed.  For example, it makes no sense that for the longest it could negotiate drug prices. Similarly it makes no sense that the DoD was paying significantly more for things than any other business or organization.  These things are done because of crony side deals that prop up private companies and industries.

How can these things be changed? 1)Closing tax loopholes holes, 2) Single issue bills tied to a specific funding line, 3)Campaign finance reform, 4)Congressional term limits, 5)requirements for Congress to create and pass a balanced budget each year. Most importantly people need to stay aware and involved and hold their Representatives accountable.  It’s not enough to just vote one day. Government is the business we are all in charge of and because we the people fail to pay attention, ask questions and demand answers and accounting, the business keeps being looted and abused.   Start shining a light on things(see:these recent town halls and conversations with civil employees) and you’ll clearly begin to see where changes are needed.  AND you’ll begin to see that some of your representatives need to go.[/quote]

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