How can Liberals Balance the Budget?

That's a great start! But the deficit for 2011 is not 768 billion, that is someone's average for the next many years. For 2011 the deficit is 1500 billion. Needs more chopping. And these cuts were suggested by conservatives. It may be possible to balance that way. Maybe...

But my point (I'm the OP) is that there is no way for a liberal to come up with big cuts. And you can see by the 4 year old liberals responding to this thread that a liberal can't even comprehend the act of controlled spending. All they can do is call people names.

Seeing as money is not real, but just imaginary numbers on balance sheets, all you have to do is reset the equation every few years by resetting all debt back to zero.

I understand that all the money are just numbers without any real value, its all belief. And of course it would be an option to reboot the system by setting back the debt to zero.

This option has got a critical thing:
Everybody who bought US Bonds or has got savings in US Dollar will loose his money! Just imagine what happens with your Pension funds! The Banking System will be lost. All the world central Banks have got huge Dollar reserves, the other western currencies will fall with the Dollar.

Another Point is that the world would selling anything to the US if you pay in Dollar. No more Oil for the US....

The Consequences of this would be so dramatic for the US....

That problem could also be solved with the tax code. Give businesses a break across the board, but those who want to use cheap overseas labor get a 'special' tax all their own that will make it cheaper for them to hire Americans (or they could just take the whole company overseas, either way, we're better off).

My dad can beat up your dad!

;o)

But, seriously. What the {remove previous expletive} heckfire is a liberal?

It isn't as if the problems we face are cut and dry. It isn't as if we can have a meaningful conversation because we are all on the same page about what a liberal is, because by-and-large, the state sponsired media and radio talking heads have been working diligently to do the thinking for the average U.S. citizen and/or shaping opinions.

You started a thread using a name-calling tactic. Did you expect to get an intelligent response?

Of the responses you received, at least a couple of them were well worth discussion, but you foreclosed on the opportunity to guide the conversation towards a meaningful, productive synopsis/goal.

How about telling us, of the suggestions made, what you agree with.

After the Conservatives fuked it up so bad, I don't know. Bernanke should have let it burn when Bush was in office.

Fuzzy math