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| Volcker: Time is Growing Short |
| 2010-06-09 |
| In the United States, we don't seem to me to share the same sense of urgency. We view ourselves as a huge and relatively self-sufficient country, in control of our own destiny. We have time to sort out our priorities, to decide what to do, and to do it. There are elements of truth in those propositions, but the time we have is growing short. Restoring our fiscal position, dealing with Social Security and health care obligations in a responsible way, sorting out a reasonable approach toward limiting carbon omissions, and producing domestic energy without unacceptable environmental risks all take time. We'd better get started. That will require a greater sense of common purpose and political consensus than has been evident in Washington or the country at large. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #3 #2 If we gut Medicare and Medicade we won't need to repudiate the debt. Posted by Nimble Spemble All who cannot faithfully serve the oligarchy must die. Kill the unborn and permit the old to die upon retirement. Soylent green wafers and bottled water for the non-oligarchic privileged class foot soldiers. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-06-09 20:59 |
| #2 If we gut Medicare and Medicade we won't need to repudiate the debt. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-06-09 16:31 |
| #1 Accepting reality-based reality is a good first start. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and half the federal government, and ALL of the federal debt need to cease to exist. Ironically, Obama's Obamacare may actually restore much of our economy, unintentionally, because it kills both Medicare and Medicaid. Then if Obamacare is overturned by the courts, we as a nation are rid of three gigantic millstones. Then, if there is some way we can kill Social Security, we are halfway home. The other half is to renounce the national debt. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-09 14:41 |