Dave Molina
(9 March 2011)
"The Debt Star"
Not in a place that is far far away. It is here here here!
Senators: 'Financial Armageddon' awaits U.S. if deficit not cut
If
the United States is to avoid "financial Armageddon" because of its
dangerously high federal debt, Washington needs to adopt a package of
dramatic reforms that include cutting government spending by trillions,
rolling back entitlement programs in future years and changing the tax
system, two U.S. senators said Monday.
Mark Warner of Virginia and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia told an audience
of Virginia Chamber of Commerce members that unless Congress and the
president take steps to reduce the national debt - now $14 trillion -
then cuts will be forced on the country by those owed the money, most
prominently the Chinese government.
"If we put this off, we're approaching financial Armageddon," Warner
said.
Warner, a Democrat, and Chambliss, a Republican, have been working with a
small group...