How many fiscally responsible TAXPAYERS and more importantly, CONSTITUENTS do you think are going to sit by while Congress asks them to pay for the bad decisions of others? There is no way, no how, they will get very far on this before it unleashes a firestorm of protests. These members of Congress have their livelihoods at stake. Besides all this, the government can’t afford it. Look at Bernanke’s latest speech about the deficit.
The US is so far in debt already that it would further compromise programs like social security which is in doubt already. Don’t think for one minute that John Q Public is going to sit back and let their hard-earned retirement be taken from them because of some stupid political decision. Let them take it from the overblown defense fund or some $200 billion dollar pork barrel project in Iowa.
