ECONOMIC ABYSS

If Rep. Paul Ryan & Co. are dead serious about reducing spending they must shed their pusillanimous proclivities in favor of some raw courage.

It's one thing to cut domestic discretionary spending--but quite another to cut the one thing that consumes over 40% of the US budget--entitlements.

If the "Young Guns" of the GOP (due to political expediency/cravenness) refuse to touch such sacrosanct benefits as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security--America will forever be cast into the Economic Abyss.