Sure I'll just stop paying the mortgage, or the car loan, or credit card interest because a decade earlier I asked for a few other pay cuts. Oh and I guess I can stop paying more for cable than the top ten neighbors combined except the rest of the family won't allow that. So I guess no I can't control that. Not without breaking promises. Not without those that egged me to cut my income thinking that there is never enough cable. So no! This hypothetical me has a problem paying fixed costs today with my income is going to have a real problem when the income goes down.
Please stop with this nonsense! We cannot fix the deficit problem by cutting spending unless we screw over those that are owed back what they have spent a lifetime prepaying for. We cannot fix the deficit problem by cutting spending unless the word of the United States is meaningless. We have a revenue problem. We either need to raise taxes or grow the economy (which generally follows tax hikes - see 1982, see 1993).
I'm done with the ridiculousness. The nonsensical conservative talking point of "we don't have a tax problem but a spending problem" is not true now, has not been true for a very long time, and well be even less true tomorrow and the next day as this nations unfunded liabilities come due. And everyday we wait to address this revenue problem makes it more likely that we are approaching the day where the "full faith and credit of the United States" becomes just as ridiculous. But I guess for those that elected someone who doesn't care about commitments and cheered on earlier knocking down the nation's credit rating this doesn't matter anyway! ETA: Those that think "starving the beast" is an appropriate strategy to accomplish what they could never convince the electorate to get behind!