Which spending cuts are more acceptable

[Zigzagman]

Defense

Social Security

Medicare

All of the above

[jp1]

My top 3 choices for spending cuts.

1. Defense
2. Defense
3. Defense

[Mangano's Gold]

Let's ask the Republican candidates. A review of Mitt Romney's website offers no cuts, just "spending is out of control". Ditto Michele Bachmann. Just stuff about "cutting spending". But what spending? Why not give us some idea?

That's of course a rhetorical question. Budget cuts are much more popular in the abstract than in reality, even among Republicans. And the deficit is convenient tool to bludgeon Obama with. These guys are blowing smoke up the primary voters' butts and the voters are just loving it.

[Rogar]

I think they all need to be cut. Plus tax increases back to the levels before Reaganomics and Bush tax cuts.

Buck up our lagging educational system and make college affordable, fix up the bridges than are failing and develop a national mass transit program. Reopen our state parks. Get serious about energy independence and growing green jobs so than an unstable middle east no longer rules our economy. Bring our troops home. Bring our jobs home. Stop spiraling health care costs instead of cutting entitlements.

Make the rich pay more dues to the society that made them that way. I'm relatively poor and willing to pay a little more in taxes.

Bring back the space program so that we can dream of infinite possibilities and have national heros that aren't sports stars.

Stopping squabbling about self-serving politics and have the courage to become the great country we once were instead of cowering behind our precious dollar.

And for heavens sake, bring back music education in public schools so the next generation doesn't get another Lady Gaga

[creaker]

Defense, definitely. We no longer have the money to run the show, actually for quite a while now.

Whatever we cut will be painful - the average standard of living in the US is really going to drop.

[mtnlaurel]

I think they all need to be cut. Plus tax increases back to the levels before Reaganomics and Bush tax cuts.

Buck up our lagging educational system and make college affordable, fix up the bridges than are failing and develop a national mass transit program. Reopen our state parks. Get serious about energy independence and growing green jobs so than an unstable middle east no longer rules our economy. Bring our troops home. Bring our jobs home. Stop spiraling health care costs instead of cutting entitlements.

Make the rich pay more dues to the society that made them that way.

Bring back the space program so that we can dream of infinite possibilities.

Stopping squabbling about self-serving politics and have the courage to become the great country we once were instead of cowering behind our precious dollar.

And for heavens sake, bring back music education in public schools so the next generation doesn't get another Lady Gaga

ROGAR 2012!!!
Especially the Lady Gaga part!

[Rogar]

And oh yeah, stop giving artificial respiration to people who bought expensive houses on low incomes. Let the houses go back to the banks that made the risky loans and let the people live in apartments or cheaper houses like they should have. I'm tired of watching people whine about being kicked out of their houses that are twice as large and 50 years newer than mine.

[IshbelRobertson]

I'm British and our government has decided to make budget cuts in ALL areas: health, education, welfare, defence, social education, youth services, police - you name it, it's being cut.

[peggy]

I think they all need to be cut. Plus tax increases back to the levels before Reaganomics and Bush tax cuts.

Buck up our lagging educational system and make college affordable, fix up the bridges than are failing and develop a national mass transit program. Reopen our state parks. Get serious about energy independence and growing green jobs so than an unstable middle east no longer rules our economy. Bring our troops home. Bring our jobs home. Stop spiraling health care costs instead of cutting entitlements.

Make the rich pay more dues to the society that made them that way. I'm relatively poor and willing to pay a little more in taxes.

Bring back the space program so that we can dream of infinite possibilities and have national heros that aren't sports stars.

Stopping squabbling about self-serving politics and have the courage to become the great country we once were instead of cowering behind our precious dollar.

And for heavens sake, bring back music education in public schools so the next generation doesn't get another Lady Gaga

++1
Rogar for President!

[LDAHL]

It’s not a matter of preference. It’s a matter of necessity. If the big three entitlement programs already account for 43% of spending, and the growth keeps accelerating, nothing else we can do will much matter. We could de-fang the Pentagon, plunder the plutocrats and privatize the parks, but it still wouldn’t be enough to appease the beast.