In just over a week, massive, across-the-board cuts will hit first-responders and soldiers, kids in schools and patients in hospitals. They needn’t.
Reasonable people recognize that the country suffers from both a spending and a revenue problem. Federal receipts, mainly taxes, as a percentage of gross domestic product were lower each year between 2009 and 2012 than in any year since 1950. [cont.]
Mark Mellman
“Massive”? Please, Mark, make a stab at learning English. The “massive” cuts amount to less than three percent of the federal budget, and the examples you use of who will be cut are cherry-picked from a long list of Washington’s most deserving and overpaid bureaucrats. Wendell Willkie, in his days as chief attorney for the Commonwealth and Southern utility holding company, testified to Congress that he was not concerned that pending New Deal legislation might cost the company’s Board of Directors some money, for they were wealthy men; or even that it might cost the major stock holders, for they were well provided for. However, throughout the South their were thousands of families — widows and orphans — whose only wealth consisted of a few shares of company stock [how they got those shares was unexplained]. And he begged Congress, “Take my wealth if you must, but please look out for the ‘widows and orphans.'” What he and you, Mr. Mellman, have in common is the crocodile tears you shed for people you have never had in your living room.