[beatrisio]

The system was broken, that is for sure, but I do believe the people are now waking up. The T Party movement has been on fire and has brought a lot of attention to the deficit and national debt problem. Ryan busted out and challenged Obama to cuts, not ever seen before on this scale. We've seen Europe close up with their debt problems and we did not like what we saw. So IMO the mood is changing, and I think as long as the T Party continues to drive home the message as they did during the mid-terms and if they do that again in 2012 there will be major changes. Are the people ready, that remains to be seen.

Well, Ryan may have raised the tough issues, but his plan isn't sustainable and it's politically untenable. Americans at large would not tolerate the wholesale weakening and cheapening of Medicare, and any budget that doesn't include steep, across-the-board tax increases is just whistling "Dixie."

Ben

[catarleriarly]

What I find most interesting about the whole budget, is that both the Dem budget and the GOP budget arrived at the exact same dollar saving ... it was how they arrived at that figure that made the argument.