You folks are far too deep in debt to get away with a balanced budget. Either cut absolutely everything and pay down the bills you've been piling up over the last few decades, or go whole-hog and run the debt up so far that it's too big to fail. A merely "balanced" budget is fence-sitting.
(Of course, paring everything to the bone and then some will cause massive problems in the short- and middle-term. Running the debt way up will only be a problem in the long-term... and not even then as long as you can still get wheelbarrows to carry around your $1,000,000 bills in.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(Of course, paring everything to the bone and then some will cause massive problems in the short- and middle-term. Running the debt way up will only be a problem in the long-term... and not even then as long as you can still get wheelbarrows to carry around your $1,000,000 bills in.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012