I had this friend, he was the tightest guy I ever knew. That man could squeeze $2 out of every quarter he ever owned. That’s just the way he ran his business too. For every downturn in profit, he implemented another cutback in expenditures. For a little bit it would work. Then the cuts would start affecting things that were essential. What was really needed was growth in profits. The only real way to save his business would have been to expand his customer base, to increase his cash flow. It never occurred to him. He just kept on cutting back, until there was no business left to cut. Closed his doors. Same thing is happening to our country under the GOP right now. They keep cutting taxes on this end, and compensating for the lack of revenue by cutting services on the other end and eventually there won’t be anything left to cut. At any point they could reverse the policies that are destroying our middle class. They could reimplement the taxes on the only segment of our country that are making money. They could go back to collecting taxes from corporations instead of subsidizing their flight from this country. Instead of killing us with the death of a thousand cuts.