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Originally Posted by Agent 488
read the report. less gridlock is mentioned as well.
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That's what I said up above in my post about the interview with the director of Standard and Poors that I watched this morning.
He said that politically the U.S. didn't have the ability to do what needs to be done to service the debt in a way that is worthy of a AAA rating.
I personally think that if we had ANY strong leaders at all in Washington that we could have at the very least said "Fuck those wars" and pulled all the troops out NOW from Afghanistan and Iraq.
That would save hundreds of billions right there. And also would have saved those Navy Seals who died today for absolutely no reason at all.
And then maybe announce we are FINALLY going to pull out of Germany and Japan since we won WW2 60 freakin' years ago. And maybe stop bombing Libya while we're at it.
That would have to make some kind of a dent I would think and show that we're serious.
Hell, we spend all of our money being the "policeman of the world" and these other countries don't have to spend anywhere near that kind of money so they get to have nice stuff like national healthcare (and NOT ObamaCare where we are all forced to buy insurance).