Rand Paul is better but disappointing with his hemming and hawing. Don’t touch Veterans Benefits – well what about future Veterans Benefits? Why should the Federal Government be running a network of VA Hospitals? Why should Veterans get “retirement pensions” in their 40’s which they collect for the next 50 years? And how do you treat them in the VA Hospital if you arbitrarily cut the federal staff by 10% – does this reduce the number of heart attacks by 10%? Do you replace the 10% with Blackwater Nurses instead?

Do you send men back to the moon with 10% less federal workers or do you just say that sending men back to the moon is unnecessary and should be CUT???

America needs LESS GOVERNMENT – not accounting gimmicks!

Schumer proposes more statism while Paul relies on gimmickry to balance the budget – all [POLITICALLY and FINANCIALLY] painless, of course!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&gl=CA&client=mv-google&hl=en&v=oDBcMqASja0&fulldescription=1&nomobile=1

1. Default on the debt. Not through inflation, which will only wipe out the poor and middle class. I’m talking about an honest default. Don’t pay. Bondholders get stuck, but they shouldn’t have lent in the first place. No one will want to lend to us again, and that’s a good thing. It’ll force Congress to make choices they so far refuse to make.

2. Take a meat cleaver to the Pentagon budget. End the empire. Bring the troops home. Demobilize. No wars, coups, torture, occupations, or drone strikes, which means less blowback. We might even get onto an airplane without being fondled by strangers!

3. Repeal all legal tender laws. When people can use whatever they want as money, FRNs will become a distant memory.

4. Abolish all cabinet departments other than War (not defense), Treasury, Justice, and State…and if people get a taste of freedom, maybe they’ll want to get rid of these as well.

So I resolved to decrease my cynicism but when it comes to congress reducing cutting ANYTHING AT ALL I must confess that I really don’t think I will be successful.