Originally Posted by
andywend
The only thing keeping the USA afloat are the super low interest rates artificially manipulated by Bernanke & friends. Now is the time to start paying down this debt and massive government spending cuts need to be implemented in ALL AREAS. If a road or bridge needs to be fixed, then by all means fix it but do it in the most cost effective way possible which includes NO UNION LABOR as union labor triples the price of fixing the job. We borrow money from China every year and provide foreign aid to countries that don't even like us. There are so many places to cut and some sort of private politically neutral accounting firm should be given the task of going over the government's books and making these massive cuts NOW.