[coolsunglasses]

I'm a fan but Bill Clinton was sweeping away a lot of cold war apparatus that no longer seemed necessary. It's going to be a lot harder to do anything sustainable or worthwhile with our current system without entitlement reform.

[tim333]

I remember Bill Clinton made some significant changes to entitlements in terms of unemployment benefits. At the time it was kind of low hanging fruit. I'm not sure what you'd go for these days but the US medical system seems massively expensive and somewhat inefficient.

[atmavatar]

Or, you know, we could roll back the massive tax cuts passed since his presidency.

In the last half century, every Republican administration (except George Bush Sr.) passed huge tax cut bills, and for some reason, everyone here acts as if they are some edicts from above that cannot be touched.

It's like the federal government quit its tech job to go work fast food and became convinced the only solution to its debt is to start living in a tent under a nearby bridge rather than try getting the tech job back. The current administration's policies are similar to selling off the tent and using a newspaper for cover because it would rather start panhandling than continue working a real job.