akuma587 on 04 September 2008
mrstickball said:
akuma587 said:
I just don't understand how the Republicans plan on getting the national debt under control. I am all for McCain's crusade against pork barrel spending, but pork barrel spending is at an absolute max 5-10% of the federal budget.
We are going to have to raise taxes, or the interest we will be paying on the national debt in 50 years or so will be over 25-35% of the national budget at the rate we are going. Otherwise we will have to severely reduce our military and other areas of the budget to save money. |
Are you saying that reducing government spending is a bad thing? There is a ton of stuff, outside of pork barrel spending that is stupid, and useless. That's kind of why part of the speeches today were about smaller government.
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I'm sorry, but the Republicans punted that football a long time ago with people like Reagan and George W. Bush ballooning the national debt like it didn't matter at all. One of the reasons why the economy is having a hard time getting back in gear is directly related to the depreciation of the dollar, which caused oil prices to soar out of control since its price is directly linked to the dollar.
State governments are actually much more out of control than the federal government, which really hasn't grown much in the last 30 years compared to state governments which have almost doubled in size. If you look at the actual numbers, and who is responsible for ballooning the federal government (George W. Bush), the big government argument is mostly just Republican chest-beating. When it comes to the kind of government they want (such as military), they want the government to be bigger.
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