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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (622238)	7/31/2011 8:44:37 AM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 1578901

Are you in favor of any form of a balanced budget amendment that caps annual spending to some % of GDP? I agree with much of what you say here as do most Americans and I am in favor of measures that cap spending...I want a well reasoned and informed debate of where the cuts are made and I am not sure if a constitutional amendment is the ideal solution...i need to better understand the pros and cons... I will say this...I am very concerned with a process that ignores the economic reality of the nation and that blindly and indiscriminately sacrifices hard won social progress...I am very concerned about the fairness of taxation and of the unprecedented wealth gap that has developed in the country....I don't like a lot of what I hear from the right relative to these things, nor what they say about the environment, science, education, and regulation...abolishing the EPA, education department, financial regulatory agencies, etc...all sounds very ignorant and regressive to me and promise to create a country I would not be proud to live in. If not.......again, there is no basis for discussion between us ....we are both just wasting our time and I'd rather further my cause elsewhere. This seems to support the approach of the right these days...it's my way or I take my ball home. Feel free to do that btw... None of this discussion would have even taken place but FOR the tea party... This will become the next great republican con job...it conveniently omits the fact that a balanced budget had been achieved during the last two years of the Clinton administration, that much of the debt on the books that is being blamed on obama is momentum from the policies that followed and that, had we continued to exercise responsible tactical fiscal management, the country could have focused its attention on the strategic problem of reforming social programs...just imagine a country today with a debt of less than $6T, which is where we'd be if not for unaffordable tax cuts, unnecessary wars and unfunded social programs...the conversation would be very different....I still scratch my head at a party that makes a platform of berating social programs and then passes Part D without even an effort to pay for it...that all in the backdrop of dire projections for medicare shortfalls....it's mind boggling... Al

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