Sometimes you can tell which politicians are serious about bringing order to budgets by seeing which ones are talking about what hard cuts they would make. Are

Sometimes you can tell which politicians are serious about bringing order to budgets by seeing which ones are talking about what hard cuts they would make. Are they talking about cuts to entitlements and military? Or are they talking about cutting the park service and "diversity hires"? It's like the family drowning in debt who decides to cut mom and dad's weekly trip for Starbuck's Latte at the Farmer's Market. Yet won't look at the two car payments, the USD500000 mortgage, or the private school tuition for the kids. Maybe in their hearts they believe it truly is the way out? But a good financial advisor would probably tell them not to worry about the fly on their toe when there are 4 or 5 elephants stacked on their chests. And it can be hard to receive those kinds of messages. As hard for individual families as it is for nations.