Jackson50 said:
I would advocate both positions. Eliminate or, at the very least, reform unnecessary bureaucracy (Dept. of Education, HUD, and the DHS), cease our history of interventionist wars (Iraq), and cease our failed attempt at amassing an empire. That would save us billions...of course, only one candidate takes our debt seriously enough to actually cut spending. |
Absolutely, running government should be more like running a business than it is now.
But once again, if I am going to err in one direction, it is going to be supporting domestic programs because:
1. Even the expensive ones are generally less expensive than large scale foreign military or other entanglements
2. We see a direct benefit at home, so we aren't just diverting money out of the economy.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
