Carly Stays on Message

Sunday morning as my wife and I started our day and ate a late breakfast I was going around the Sunday morning news programs and landed on Fox's Chris Wallace interviewing California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina.

The candidate, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard challenges Barbara Boxer the three term Democratic Senator.

As is the case with Republican candidates this year Fiorina talked about cutting the deficit as a number one concern along with lowering taxes. Wallace, to his credit, did not let the candidate slide. Repeatedly asking her to explain just what she would cut to balance the budget with this scenario she repeatedly danced around the subject.

Wallace pressed and she feinted. This was not what she was promised on a Fox interview. Finally pressed she loaded up for a quasi answer. I looked at my wife and reminded of the old Hi Bob drinking game said to her " Here it comes, we are going to cut waste." 10 seconds later she spoke of estimates of as much as 50 billion dollars of waste in the budget that needed to be corrected.

Wallace, congratulating her on what each candidate says, Obama too by the way when campaigning talked about cutting waste, advised her that we had a 4 trillion dollar shortfall with the Bush tax cuts extended.

She never did answer. They never do.

Here is the truth. The military budget must be cut. Drastically. It is a jobs program for the arms makers and for the cities and towns that house them. As Bill Maher says we need to undertand that we have an army ready to fight the Russians in 1982.

Another place is Social Security and entitlements. Can someone explain to me why I have to pay X percent of my income as do most people as we do not make more than 100 K a year but that those above that amount pay a progressively lower percentage of their income as their income rises. How about keeping that percentage steady all the way thru the income brackets.

If you see France in the news right now with protests over raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 then you see the problems coming down the road. Our issues are not trim around the edges issues. We need a hacksaw not a chisel, the problem is the patients family wants you to save everything not cut off a leg to save the body.

Good luck to all those elected this year. Let's hope Carly is not one of them.