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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
I also think it is interesting that this $50 billion is but a drop in the bucket compared to the total budget, and that nearly all of those cuts are from the welfare and heath sectors. The 24% of the US budget that goes to defense spending remains largely untouched. This seems far more ideological, and far less practical. I think that Platapus' point stands.
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Im not
disagreeing with Platapus.
Im only stating the fact that both parties are releasing these insanely small budget cut figures.
What we are basically illustrating right here in this very thread is that Americans in general really want to cut the budget, trim the fat and try to "right the ship" economically speaking
BUT...
nobody wants to be the one to cinch that belt up. Nobody wants
their little baby pet project to be the one getting cut or getting the axe altogether. They want
everyone else to be the ones to suffer.
the left and the right both have their different ideas of what to cut and
none of it is enough. and even if it were the right number they cannot agree on ANYTHING.
and Joe American is reading the morning news saying to himself
"WOW!!! they can really cut $50B from the budget? thats great news!!" but only because they are too stupid to realize that $50B is CHUMP CHANGE... with the numbers we are talking about that is "walkin' around money."
WE are our own worst enemy. None of us can agree on ANYTHING and in the meantime the ship continues to sink.
and next on the congressional agenda? this useless waste of space... This pile of stinking trash that is our United States Congress... whats next for them? ---- to pass whatever budget bill they can to avoid a shut down of the government* no matter how crappy or nonsensical the budget might be they will pass it in there at the last second just for the sake of passing something - On saint Patricks day - while you're not looking!. and this is the process that is going to break the back of this country.
Bicker
Argue
fuss
complain
reach the deadline and pass
something because something is theoretically better than
nothing.
rinse, wash, repeat - the same cycle next year... until the federal deficit becomes a number so large that it has to be expressed in
scientific notation 
The reason there are so many disagreements on fundamental policy issues is that the Government has too many irons in the fire... they have their hands on SO MANY private issues that it cant be kept up with. the budget is stretched so thin to so many different directions and there are so many special interests tied up in this whole mess that these politicians are trying to make everyone happy and THEY CANT!