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

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.

If it's Not possible politically, then it's not going to happen at all.

Its never that black and white with something that most of
the voters dont get too exited about like the national debt.

It may well be feasible to start cutting back on the national debt if
it wasnt for Iraq, but its never going to be possible to do that while
ever Iraq is a rat hole for an immense amount of money, and the
voters just aint gunna buy the level of taxes that it would take to
both do Iraq and start cutting back on the national debt.

It might well be politically possible to drastically cut back on
the military industrial complex as well now that no one with
a clue thinks that there is any real military threat to the US
anymore and most of the voters couldnt care less about
places like Kuwait, Taiwan, Korea, SE Asia etc etc etc.

There is No authority within the nation that can force it.

There doesnt need to be with something like Iraq.

And if it's to happen politically, it will involve some Compromise.

Nope, not with getting out of Iraq. That will happen sometime.
The only real question is how long it will take before Iraq stops
being such an immense rat hole for money and thats eliminated and
it will be quite politically feasible to start paying down the national debt.

It appears very unlikely that anyone will ever get a mandate to say invade Iran now.

Failing that, it won't happen at all.

Corse Iraq will fix itself eventually, even if that takes another 10 years.

We'll just end up with the same sorts of ranting noise, but no actual progress.

There wont even be much ranting, the national debt isnt
something that many of the voters give a damn about.