Small minds are incapable of thinking big and seeing the forrest for the trees. Whether it is puny, hard core liberal minds like those of President Obama, Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi or shallow “moderate” liberal minds like those of Congressman John Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell this holds true.
All of them are failing this country when it comes to dealing with the national debt, spending and the debt ceiling. And all because of of the same reason; their small minds impede their ability to see the problem.
They talk about cutting between $2 trillion and $4 trillion in spending but include a ten year horizon for those cuts making the year to year number a few hundred billion on more than a nearly $1.5 to $1.7 trillion in over spending each year. These small minds hope that incomes to the government will expand to somewhere around $4 to $4.5 trillion a year by 2021 from the $2.4-$2.7 trillion today to help convince themselves that they don’t need to cut more. At the rate things are going that revenue projection is a pie in the sky hope and a dream.
We have to deal with reality. We have to deal with the numbers we know. What we know is that right now we are bringing in approximately $2.6 trillion dollars per year. We should not plan on spending a dime more because we have seen that the small minds in Washington will always justify spending more if we allow them.
Bigger minds, smart minds, would know what this means. It means immediately trimming 40% of the federal budget to bring it into true balance including all commitments and revenues. Furthermore it means cutting spending shortly thereafter by 60%+ to give us the breathing room to pay down our $14.3 trillion in debt within a decade.
But since there are few big minds in Washington, and those big minds that do actually go there quickly have their big minds shrunk into small ones, those things will not happen. At least not willingly.
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