Simpson-Bowles report might offer compromise  Your Letters By
Your Letters The Post-Standard on December 17, 2012 at 3:00 AM
To the Editor:  I am sick of the fiscal cliff. I have had enough
of the Republicans pledging allegiance to Grover Norquist and
the Democrats refusing to cut any spending except the military.
The president flying all over the country with his ''class
warfare message'' isn't helping anything, either.  I don't
pretend to know how to fix the problem, but I do know that we
owe more than $16 trillion and we borrow or more than 40 cents
of each dollar we spend. It doesn't take an economist to know
that this is not sustainable. The president created a commission
early in his first term to consider the debt problem. The report
by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles was hated by the Democrats
because it cut spending and the Republicans because it raised
taxes. The president ignored the commission's recommendations. I
think that something that both sides hate is probably a good
compromise. I doubt th