Are you kidding me? What a crazy thing to say. You obviously grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. I just have to laugh this ridiculous comment off...
But I appreciate the support.
Oh... well my bad then
I considered consolidating, but one thread is in prepharm, one is in pharm, and the other is a more general thread about all thing debt crisis related that happens to include some posts about this issue. I don't see a logical way to merge them. I could redirect the prepharm to the pharm section sense by definition it is a professional student topic, however I feel like it has an appropriate place over there. Plus this is big news so I think we need to just let them ride for now.
If more open I will merge for sure, ok?
Plus if we redirect from prepharm to pharm we get more prepharmers posting over here and nobody wants that.
Are you kidding me? What a crazy thing to say. You obviously grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. I just have to laugh this ridiculous comment off...
actually, I think you were correct... click on his data against student loans link.
Alright guys, I am off to work now.
npage...I am going to remember this.
Owle you've been a beast since becoming mod, take a day or two off from posting
Also, bookmarking this thread for ownage of the year
I read on CNN money that this move saves 21 billion over the next 10 years. While it's a considerable amount of money, it is nothing compared to realistically funding the trillions of dollars in deficit, while there are more realistic places to do cuts. Did you know that the government spends 3 billion dollars DAILY on both wars??! But no politician wants to touch that subject, because it would be considered unpatriotic. A few weeks ago they were showing infrastructure that the govt was building in Afghanistan, but these ppl have no way of running it or maintaining it because of the cost to do so.....why?! I am not saying we should cut defense, but if there are some things that should not be touched just like defense, education should be one of them. Without it, where would the innovation have come from that defines our military prowess? If we can borrow gigantic amounts to fund wars ( which really is the crux of the debt problem), we should also go on a spending binge to finance education and healthcare....F**K it! If anybody whining about debt and want it a better way? Cut accross the board! Stop making military spending a sanctuary. And raise taxes on EVERYBODY!! Don't care...even mine! It reduces disposable income for the middle class, but it will set a lot of people right, and teach them to live within their means!!
Ok rant over .......thanks for your time
Tax must be raised, and big cuts must also be made. It's a given. With the government running $1.37 trillion in red a year, there is just no way to solve that with cuts alone. Even if we cut off the military and medicare/medicaid it still wouldn't be enough. And it goes without saying that will need to keep some level of a respectable military, and moderate amount of social safety net. It has to be done by a combination of taxation and budget cuts. The current cuts in the compromise will NOT be enough, as it doesn't touch social security or medicare/medicaid.
What I think is unpatriotic is just how weak stomached the average Joes in the country is. Nobody wants to make sacrifices and bite the bullet themselves, always want other people to pony up. I almost wish we can borrow the Chinese government's economic committee for a year or two to do some serious butt kicking and forcing tough but correct budget decisions down people's throat for once. Their methods are undemocratic and harsh but produce results, which is what we need right now.
YES!
