What's stop us from reforming those social programs? Obama has said that he is willing to comprehensively go through and revamp those programs alongside Republicans. His Health and Human Service Cabinet nominee worked as one of the head people in Medicare/Medicaid recently and knows those organizations inside and out.
You are deluding yourself if you think we can just turn the "war faucet" on and off and spending will stop. Guess how much we have spent on military spending and homeland security since 2002? $5 Trillion! That faucet isn't just leaking, the spigot completely broke off.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/19/big-government-gets-bigger/
But an examination of numerous government reports over the past few years shows the administration has had difficulties in stewarding the taxpayer money spent on the mission — a total of more than $5 trillion on wars abroad and anti-terrorism efforts at home since 2002.
Its the same thing with arresting people. Politicians in the south want to look "tough on crime" so they keep making laws stricter and putting more people in prison.
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
