| akuma587 said: Actually it is 3.44 trillion. The budget is going to grow to some degree every year either in real terms, based on the increase in size of the economy and the population of the country, and in nominal terms, based on increases in inflation. So people have to take these numbers with that in mind as well. |
If not for third world immigration and illegal immigrants from Mexico, the US population would be stable instead of increasing. These groups are also high consumers of expensive social services. If we get that under control, we'll be able to get the budget under control.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
