The Blue Board

Yep.

I think of it as bankruptcy honestly. I would rather get some benefits than getting no benefits. The problem with entitlements like social security and Medicare is that its been based on a premise of current support from workers for current beneficiaries. It's real problem stems from there being and will be too many beneficiaries than there are workers to cover. Now, its a long-term and short-term problem. Short-term there aren't enough workers because of the economc climate, this is an easy and inevitable fix. Long-term its not. We need to find a solution for this, for solvency. I don't think extending age requirements for youth will do much for the next forty years of the trust. It needs mee structural changes. Personally, I think there needs to be a more equal input to output ratio. I think they need to mandate that SS trust fund can not be borrowed for deficit spending. It needs to be invested in some other way.

You probably won't agree with this, but Medicare insolvency should be solved by implementing nationwide single-payer. It is cheaper, broadens the beneficiary base, and takes the burden of healthcare off of the employer (good for global competition).

Personally, I think investing in the infrastrucute bank would be dusky fruitful.

The government could literally not change any outlays that private insurance does and still save trillions of dollars on administrative costs alone. I don't see innovation being a problem.

Singling out solar panels and the picking winners and losers argument is beyond dumb. First off, if subsidies and loan colaterallization was picking winners and losers, then we've been doing that for years. It's an infant industry. No different than semiconductors in the mid 20th century. Solar panels aren't inherent losers though. It's not existential. They can't compete because they are early in their product life cycles but the costs keep plummeting. They aren't able to lower costs fast enough. Chinese dumping isn't helping either. Personally, I don't care much for tariffs, I'd rather see more industry support than uncompetitive trade practices. Those hurt consumers.

Energy prices aren't uncompetitive, its manufacturing. The support of green manufacturing is what failed. Just to clear confusion.

I agree though. I actually read a magnificent article on a proposal to give renewables a ten-year credit period and then take all energy subsidies away entirely and let them compete. I like that idea a lot for production.

I'm getting a little long-winded, but I think I covered everything.

So you don't bother to read the article but have no problem proclaiming "butthurt" based on title alone. Why am I not surprised...

Getting into a philosophical discussion now. I mean we went from talking about cuts to literally ending government.

Did you get a reprieve? I thought you were on a long-term ban after that landslide?

As someone who has been an active duty submarine officer and am currently deployed with the NG as an Engineer in Afghanistan, I can say that he military is adaptable and not truly antiquated. Most things in the military serve a purpose.

I will say that our budget, accounting and logisitics could use some serious "Office Space - Bob" treatment. The same can be said for all federal agencies.

Best Example - Let's say you have $1M in budget category X and it is August and you have $500K left. The only legal way to spend the money in the time left is to buy toilet paper (which you don't need). You will end up with a warehouse full of TP so that you spend all of your budget b/c if you don't your funds expire and your budget is cut the following year. Thus no budget in gov't ever goes down (without a lot of pain and effort). This is a large reason why you have growing budgets and warehouses full of wasted tax payer dollars (plenty of they here right now).

Sorry for back tracking here, but once the individual runs out of their social security (or the govt gives away all the input) the individuals would have to resort to welfare/ govt healthcare anyways. So it ultimately would fall back on the govts shoulders with the current system being put in place