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Originally Posted by tw2113
We're financial morons and can't realize we spend too much as a country
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No, its the complete opposite problem, Americans like the government to spend a lot, and then don't like to pay for it after the fact. Cutting spending is NOT the problem, its that middle class America needs to realize that they need to pay 1990s taxes at let these Bush tax cuts go. They crippled us the past 11 years, and they will only continue to cripple us in the future. Middle-class Americans can afford too many personal luxuries meanwhile our society crumbles. Too many Americans are selfish and cling to an irredentist view of America. They want some kind of Libertarian fantasy. This is a mixed economy, not Capitalism. The tax code is corporate welfare. There is no such thing as fair competition. So lets grow up, face the music of our reality rather than the delusions of our ideologies, and get back to work.