That more than 60% of the people surveyed have absolutely no fucking clue what was actually in the debt limit agreement since it did not contain any actual cuts directly it could not in and of itself have been fair or unfair to anyone.
Further it shows that more than 80% of the people are absolutely clueless about the numbers driving the national debt because cuts to Medicare and Social Security are unavoidable. It might somehow be magically possible to cut them in terms of cost without cutting benefit levels, most likely by restricting eligibility through means testing or some similar mechanism but cuts to those programs from a spending perspective are unavoidable and the sooner we actually make those cuts the less drastic they would be.
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Date: 10/8/11 18:09 (UTC)That more than 60% of the people surveyed have absolutely no fucking clue what was actually in the debt limit agreement since it did not contain any actual cuts directly it could not in and of itself have been fair or unfair to anyone.
Further it shows that more than 80% of the people are absolutely clueless about the numbers driving the national debt because cuts to Medicare and Social Security are unavoidable. It might somehow be magically possible to cut them in terms of cost without cutting benefit levels, most likely by restricting eligibility through means testing or some similar mechanism but cuts to those programs from a spending perspective are unavoidable and the sooner we actually make those cuts the less drastic they would be.