Reply #24

And accepting that fact that the reality on the ground calls for ugly policies. The kind of cuts Ron Paul advocates are ugly, really ugly, and the kind of tax hikes I am advocating are really ugly too. Its politically easy to smash either of these positions, eluding to some kind of rosy third way. But if that third way is just PR, just perception manipulation, then that leads us to the worse outcome of all, we could literally lose it all. The debate about who's got the right treatment comes after we face the fact that the patient is wounded, that's priority one.