Overcrowded Prisons Swelling State Budgets

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akuma587 said:

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.

 

I am not saying anyone in Government is competent enough to stop spending money, I am saying if they did, the effects would be less. Aside from what it does to our foreign policy, spending less on the military has little negative impact. When you have a social program like Medicare, you have created a society dependent of government. Cutting those funds has a far more dire effect.