Reply #12: I'm from Ohio and am a Republican. [View All]

And I think that Boner should shut up, pass the extension, then pass a budget that incrementally moves towards being balanced.

Like Bill Clinton did back in the 1990's. It just took Dubya and my fellow Republicans in congress one year to totally blow the balanced budget Bush was handed.

To just try to cut all the social programs in one fell swoop is not only irresponsible, it is a slap in the face to all the seniors that played by the rules and paid into social security and medicare for decades. It is a slap in the face to me after I paid into social security and medicare all these years.

We didn't get into this pickle overnight, and we aren't getting out of it without a decade of hard work to just balance the budget. Once we are there, then we can look at what needs done to pay down the debt.