Democrats have been compromising for the last 30 years. It has resulted in what is becoming a failed state.

Reagan came in, slashed taxes on upper incomes, and we've been stuck there ever since. He helped firmly entrench the concept of increasing the military budget every year to maintain perpetual war in the Middle East and preserve the oil supply and carbon footprint that is destroying the world.

California is becoming unlivable, and it isn't a forest management issue (to the extent that it is, the federal government manages more than 50% of the forests in California).

So I guess my question to you is, does compromise extend to the biggest bleedout of the budget? The military?

That's where to start, not entitlement. Entitlement programs have been getting hammered for last 30 years.

You are going to find welfare a line in the sand for every Democrat and progressive.

Big government is really best exemplified by the military industrial complex. Let's start there if you want budget reductions.

It will be nice to have this kind of debate, in civil tones, if Republicans return to decency after the election (which has not yet been won by Biden). Frankly, I'm not counting on that. The Republican Party has become a vindictive, nasty, nationalist sham of its former self.

Remember when Tricky Dick Nixon, who we thought was bad at the time, proposed a national European style health care plan? The pendulum has swung very far to the right both in economic and foreign policy.

But truly, if deficit spending is so bad, where is the disaster? Even with the unemployment fueled by covid, the U.S. economy's issues are structural with little to do with problems triggered by deficit spending. The real problem with the economy is that people on the South Side of Chicago and Altoona, Illinois can't find good jobs.