Summary
THERE IS ONLY one thing worse than Republicans and Democrats failing to agree to lift the debt ceiling, and that is lifting it without a well-thought-out plan and with hasty cuts totaling trillions of dollars over a decade.
What business do you know - that is still in business - would operate this way: making massive long-term cuts, negotiated by exhausted executives, without any strategic plan? It certainly wouldn't be a business you'd expect to thrive. Maybe you can grow without a plan. But if you cut without a plan, you will almost surely hit an artery or a bone that could really debilitate you. That, I fear, is where we are heading.See the full content of this document
Extract
Can't We Do This Right?
Stop for a minute and ask: What would it look like if we were approaching this problem properly?
For starters, two years ago Congress and the Obama administration would have collaborated on a series of hearings ...See the full content of this document
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