Deficit Reduction: Democrat Warner, Republican Chambliss Push for Plan

The greedy goverment is now under fire to clean itsself up and if the republicans can show a meaningfull attempt at spending cuts in even small ways that add up the republicans will be in power for along time. Our democrats showed a very ugly hand again by keeping Pelosi and Reid as failures in the eyes of voters.

With dems retaining the WH and Senate, I am not optimistic in the plan to reduce the deficit. The backbone of the dem party is social programs and other trillion dollar plans to create more voting blocks. Ironically the politicians resemble the right and are mostly weathly to ultra-wealthy and their programs seemed to design to assist but rarely actually lift anyone out of their social prdicaments, because that would destroy the dependent voting base.

The Republicans are truly the party of anti-intellectualism. A poll came out today that showed 52% of all Republicans believe in strict creationism, that mankind has only been here 10,000 years and that evolution is not valid. Add this to the hare-brained Republican mantra that global warming is not true and you have a scary number of ignorant people populating the Republican party. Sarah Palin is emblematic of the type of idiots we are now seeing surface in the Republican party. It's a circular firing squad and the Republicans are all crack shots! Mark Montgomery NYC, NY boboberg@nyc.rr.com

Cut the THOUSANDS of gov't employees added by the Obama administration, and get their pay/pensions/benefits in line with the private sector, and on the same healthcare options. There was a report yesterday that a school teacher who works to age 59 years, or for more than 20 years, and earns $78,000, will be entitled to approx $58,000 pension. One making $110,000, under the same parameters, would be entitled to $89,000. How can this be sustained? They are raising retirement for the private sector, and cutting SS and Medicare, but a gov't worked can realistically work to 55, collect a huge pension, while holding another job. This cannot continue.

I see this playing out just like the health care debacle. They will spend a year and a half kicking this around resulting in a non-productive outcome while other issues which could actually invigorate our economy and the employment situation are ignored and they inflate the deficit further with their own payrolls and pet projects.

There hasn't been a spending bill Warner hasn't voted for, why the switch??