How would YOU handle the finantial crisis?

[TheRealMafoo]

akuma587 said:

tallgnome said:
REDUCE MILITARY SPENDINGS, one issue is to pull the hell out of Iraq or start pulling troops out and reduce military spendings. The fact that the US will spend around 700 billion alone in 2008 for military spending. The US spends 48% of the worlds total spending in military. If that isn't saying something then wtf seriously sigh.

Oh btw by reducing military spending we will be able to allocate the money else where, that said it doesn't really mean all the time that they will actually spend it in the right direction though. God I hate this government. We need to go back to the 70s when there were protests everywhere and actually made a difference.

QFT, reducing military spending would save us a lot of money, that and reversing a lot of the Bush tax cuts.  We can all see how much good they did for the economy.  Taxes were higher under Clinton yet those years were wrought with prosperity.

 

 

I agree with reducing the size of the military. We need to get out of the worlds business, and get back to defending ourselves. I think Iraq requires us to stay, but once that war is won (and we are VERY close to wining), we need to refocus our military position. The Defense Department needs to get back to defending, and not attacking :p

As for Taxes, lowering them was a win-win. People payed less in taxes, and the government collected more in revenue. Lowering taxes always increases revenue. The issue is spending, not tax collecting.