check out this great interactive site where you get to choose how to balance the budget

My cousin posted this site on facebook:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html

I found it very hard to make some of the decisions, for example capping medicare staring in 2013, but in the end I was happy with my choices, and the final mix was 50% spending cuts and 50% revenue increases/taxes.

Here is what I came up with:


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?choices=g3sk444t

Check it out and see what you can come up with.  Also, let me know what you think of my choices.  Tom

Election night 2010

"What can I say...we are a divided country, and I guess that includes families.  I am pretty much into politics (I watch too much cable news, anyway) and think that it is unbelievable that we can't get agreement on any issues, even traditional Republican ones like immigration.  The debt is crazy so I can see where the tea partiers are coming from on that issue, but then they rally against any kind of tax, when I think the tax burden is actually low in comparison to most of the last 50 years, (by %).  The way I see it the rich just keep getting richer.  Now the Republicans are going to try to deregulate everything...which is a big reason why we are in this economic mess to start with (both Clinton and GW Bush let wall street do whatever they wanted).  To be honest, I think that the Obama hatred out there is somewhat race drive.  Most serious commentators say that he has actually governed as a centrist for the most part.

It's early but it's looking like the Dems will at least keep the senate.  As I get older though I think that both partys are rotten to the core...controlled by their corporate donors.  So I like the idea of a third party rising up that believes in fiscal responsibility, but the tea party isn't exactly what I had in mind"