Don Homuth dhomuthoneatcomcast.net@ wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Don Homuth dhomuthoneatcomcast.net@ wrote:
Billy wrote
Don Homuth dhomuthoneatcomcast.net@ wrote

The best means of cutting through the noise is to ask a simple question:

Pity its the wrong question.

Which federal expenditures that You support would
you like to see cut or eliminated? Be specific.

You already don't support DoD spending at its current level.

And thats a perfectly reasonable position on spending cuts.

It is, however, no the question I asked.

Pity it was the wrong question.

Re-read the question:

No need.

In which case, Politics being what it is and where the decision will be taken,
No One will ever back off from spending what they want on things they support.

In reality what particular individuals may or may not personally
support is completely irrelevant to what is possible politically.

Which is what it's going to take.

Nope. The national debt could certainly be eliminated over time with
the military industrial complex tossed in the bin now that there is no
longer any military threat to the US and there isnt going to be either.

Yes, that could be a problem for the likes of Kuwait
and Taiwan, but it would be feasible to go that route.

What federal expenditures that You Support would you like to cut or eliminate?

He doesnt have to restrict it to stuff he does support just because you demand that.

It is, however, the more Honest answer that will be required.

Nope. Your qualification is completely irrelevant to what is
necessary to do something useful about the national debt.

Even just getting out of Iraq would stop the national debt growing
dramatically and moderate increase in taxation added to that
approach would see the national debt start to be reduced over time.

Corse it would also make sense to wait until after the
current economic downturn has been survived first.

It will Not be the case that one sector will take the entire hit.

Thats just plain wrong with the military industrial complex.

It would work if that was the one that took the entire hit.

Everyone gets to have a piece of this one.

You dont get to proclaim that any time soon.

That means some sort of compromise.

Nope, not if the military industrial complex gets the chop instead.

So, what's on the table for cuts and elimination that You (or he) support?

Like I said, get out of Iraq.

What will You give up willingly to bring some sense of fiscal sanity?

I dont have to give up a damned thing, just getting out of Iraq
would be enough to have a useful effect on the national debt.

Nothing? At all?

I've already told you a lot more than nothing.

Then it predictably won't happen, will it?

Corse getting out of Iraq can happen if thats what the voters want.

Cutting (though not eliminating) all or even Most
military expenditures won't solve the problem,

Getting out of Iraq would certainly stop the national debt increasing dramatically.

and predictably will create some new ones.

Easy to claim, hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.