What's the point in compromising on our Debt Crisis?

[Little-Acorn]

Should we compromise instead of changing course on the National Debt?

The big problem we are facing, is more than simply running out of spending cash this Teusday. The big problem is that our National Debt is WAY too high, and that we're getting to the point where:

1.) A large part of the Federal Budget goes to simply paying interest on that debt;

2.) Our Credit Rating may be downgraded soon, because of that huge debt (not because of the current spending-cash crunch), which will result in our having to pay a LOT more interest on that same debt; and

3.) If we are ever in a genuine emergency, we might find that no one is willing to lend us large amounts to enable us to fight it off.

Liberals (in both parties) want us to compromise, and enable govt to borrow a LOT more, while raising taxes that will slow the economy and cripple further recovery, and reduce spending cuts to mere "reductions in the rate of increase". Even if we raise our Debt Ceiling while doing little else, our credit rating will still be downgraded... because we are doing nothing to address the real problem: A huge National Debt.

Only the conservatives support a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution - the only way to STOP the runaway train of borrowing and spending, and the first step toward actually solving the big problem: starting to pay off our huge National Debt. We can't start paying it off, until AFTER we balance the budget.

Is there any point in compromising?

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[Dilloduck]

Absolutely not. How many more times do we have to play this game before someone figures out that it's a scam and we always lose to the snake oil salesmen ?

[Gunny]

Absolutely not. How many more times do we have to play this game before someone figures out that it's a scam and we always lose to the snake oil salesmen ?

It's a big circle jerk that begins with voters, and the gullibility thereof. The progressive left doesn't care if it destroys this country. In fact, that's what they want. Their President is a perfect example. He's done more damage in 3 years than the previous 4 presidents.

[Little-Acorn]

There are times when compromising is a good thing, for the purpose of progressing toward an acceptable solution to our problem. If we had alread balanced the budget, and were beginning to pay off our gargantual National Debt, then a disagreement over whether to pay it off at a rate of $300 billion per year or $800 biillion per year, could be resolved by each side compromising. This would be a good way to go, even if not "perfect" in anyone's view.

But a disagreement over whether to keep raising tax rates and borrowing without end, having no plans to even balance the budget much less paying off the huge debt, versus no tax increases and putting in place a plan to balance the budget, cannot be "compromised" by its very nature.

What, exactly, is the point of compromising?

[red states rule]

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