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America Needs a Turnaround Plan

Fred is your middle name "Hoover"? To suggest raising taxes going into a recession, that's back of the classroom kind of thinking.

Longer term, a phased expiration AFTER the fed begins to raise rates because our economy is recovering is a good thing. But structurally, we must freeze military and discretionary spending immediately as in zero, no increase for five years.

Use this "crisis" to restructure Social Security (minimum age to draw ANY benefits, make it 72 for those born after 1960.) Same deal with Medicare, eliminate the idiotic free drug benefit or at least severely means test it.

But as your first act of raising taxes as we spiral downward, will only take this economy into a nose dive.