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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (36139)	10/2/2008 12:34:23 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I also see a recession but you'd be surprised at how simple it would be to start paying down the debt and cleaning up the mess if we just had the political will to do it. The whole problem is special interests. The reason stuff would be relatively easy to fix if we could just get rid of special interests is because we have a 13 trillion GDP and we receive about 2.5 trillion in tax receipts per year. whitehouse.gov Right now the nation is NOT overtaxed, so if you could increase tax receipts slighly and move around expenditures we would be back in surplus territory. That would require cutting the military expenditures by 50% which should be doable because we have too many stupid wasteful wars going on now, and change healthcare to single payer. Those 2 things would change everything. But no way can they do that until there is some sort of change of political will.