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Obama offered $3 dollars in spending cuts for every $1 dollar of tax increases and the GOP walked away from it.
However, there is still much pressure from both parties now to cut our most wasteful spending, our bloated military spending (that is almost as much as the rest of the world combined) and our optional wars, and to increase revenue by eliminating tax breaks for the wealthiest. The FICA cap will have to be raised to make SS solvent for the long term, and we will eventually have to go to a single payer system, as the rest of the industrialized world has done to get our health care costs under control. We see the people in the streets now demanding these things become priorities.
So did Tip ONeil and the Congress under GHW Bush. Did we ever get those cuts? Obama says a lot of things and never does any of them. Why do you continue to buy what he says? Where are the documented cuts? Why does FICA have to be increased? How about making Congress take SS off budget and putting it back where it belongs and stop spending the money on everything other than SS?