Solution for Deficit? Can Anyone Make the Call?

If these latest NY Times articles are any indication, a solution for getting a handle on the deficit is a long ways off. The debates will be full of rhetoric, half-solutions, unreasonable demands and demagoguery. Along the way, it is fairly certain that the people will have a very small voice in the process. But whatever voice “the people” have – that voice will be sending mixed signals. No easy solutions – and the solution seems to be based on whether you would rather have tax increases (generally on someone else’s income level) or spending cuts (as long as it does not cut any programs that matter).

To fully appreciate the process,

first read: Ok, You Fix the Budget

then read: How Readers Chose to Fix the Deficit

The second piece provides some insight into how almost 7,000 would work on the issue of trying to reduce the budget deficit. Not an easy issue.