Comment Re:Just so long as.... (Score 1) 413
Just so long as you're not one of those dumb fucks who thinks cutting spending alone can fix the problem we'll get along fine....
Hi. Dumbfuck here.
Our spending would match our current tax revenue if we cut our spending levels back to the Dark Dark Days of... 2001. Surely you remember back then, there were no roads. The military was holding bake sales just to buy fuel for the B2 bombers. Senior citizens were starving in the ditches (they couldn't starve in the streets; there weren't any in 2001. Remember?) It was FUCKING ANARCHY!
The federal budget needs to be gone through with an axe, not with a scalpel. DoD, DoE, the other DoE, HUD, Medicare, Medicaid, SS, DEA not a one of them should be off the budget cutting table. There is No federal agency that couldn't operate today at 2001 budget levels and still have plenty of fat that could be trimmed.
If we go back into Ancient American History (the late 1990's) we even had a modest budget surplus (discounting the looming implicit debts of the soon to be retiring Baby Boomers).
Why do you believe this is an undesirable goal?
Was the Federal Government emaciated then?
Were American citizens getting good value for their tax dollars then?
Are they now?
Peter