Musing of One Wondering What Happened to the First Mrs. Julia Ceasar After the Divorce (Debt)

In a previous posting I suggested that congress should lead the way in debt reduction by taking a hit to itself. This would be only an indicator of a firm intention to reduce the debt.

For many years efforts to cut back have been primarily band-aid type measures, which only try to reduce the costs of a function without any further action. That does not work very well. Instead what is needed is to change or eliminate the function itself.

An example of this can be found in the Medicare/Medicaid functions. Cost apparently keep rising, band-aids keep being applied until there is no more room and effective results are not obtained. What is needed is to eliminate these functions and replace them with more controllable functions as a part of a simplified health plan, which should replace whatever the thing is that they call a health plan now. Incidentally, I myself am on Medicare.

There are conscientious and dedicated people in congress, but I doubt that congress as a body has the political will to take such draconian actions as described above. That's too bad.