Comment Re:Looking from across the water (Score 1) 395
Right, except that all the old people who are dependent on Social Security would starve (whether that dependency is a good thing in the first place or not isn't the point - I think it's dumb, but once it was put in place it removed the incentive for working class people to save enough for retirement). And the poor people would have no health care because Medicare would be gone.
And with no military left, what's left of our hegemony would be gone. Which means no deterrence against other nations doing naughty things like making nuclear and biological weapons, no deterrence against backing terrorist entities in inter-state disputes. And the Arabs can gouge us as much as they want for oil, and the Saudi and Pakistani governments will collapse without support, resulting in takeovers by radical Islamists and a spike in oil prices to 200 dollars a barrel overnight.
So yeah, your idea is fucking stupid. Take it back to the drawing board. What the Federal government *should* be doing is directing funds toward research of critical national security importance, like breaking the shackles of oil dependence so we can afford to downsize our military to a more reasonable scale necessary for self-defense and occasional force projection rather than large scale occupation. As for the rest of it, there's too much pork barrel and make-work crap even in the good parts (like NASA) and that stuff definitely needs to be gutted. But a $100M Federal government will never work.