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To: Copeland who wrote (2227)	12/21/2012 1:06:38 AM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 125095

Entitlements will have to be cut. The military will have to be cut. Taxes will have to be raised.

To: Copeland who wrote (2227)	12/21/2012 1:00:12 PM
From: Don Hurst	1 Recommendation Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 125095

Re:>>"Even if the Federal government was shut down as a whole, including defunding the military, it's still impossible to balance the budget without cutting entitlements."<< Really?...When the budget was balanced in 2000 and we had a Surplus, I don't recall any discussion of "entitlement" issues or cutbacks that led to the Surplus or how important it was to use the Budget Surplus for future "Entitlement" costs. I do remember however that we were not involved in any 10 year unfunded wars or COIN projects to spread our brand of 21st Century Democracy to 7th Century cultures and totally fractured societies using the US Military and its guns. As a matter of fact...(ah yes, I am now ready for Congress...I have used "as a matter of fact")... I recall that Greenspan said we had to worry about the future of the 30 year Bond because of the Budget Surplus and Bush said it was "vitally important" to give the Surplus back to the people, There seemed at that time just a short few years ago, no worries about these so called "Entitlements". As a matter of fact (my goodness...two times) Bush put another "Entitlement" on the books...yep, unfunded and not only that, without any effort to use the government's purchasing power strength. Obviously, no worries about "future", you know a couple of years, runaway "Entitlement" costs. Couldn't be any, Tom Delay and his crowd pushed that one through. And here we are again...now spending as much on "Defense" as the rest of the world combined, the top two percent living as high off the hog as ever because of tax breaks and saying they must leave their wealth to their families so they also can live high off the hog because they were born to wealth and we have the same cries again... Cutting Defense won't do it, we cannot provide universal health care for our own and the middle class and poor must pay more via "Entitlement" cuts so the wealthy do not pay their fair share or most importantly, heaven forbid, a "DeathTax" on their family inheritance. OHMIGOSH