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Originally Posted by crooks
Cutting Spending is the only viable way to narrow a deficit bar raising taxes....bit of a no brainer, eh?
Where do y'all yanks reckon expenditure can be best slashed (it's very easy to talk about it, but what could be cut without political ramifications)?
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That's the problem. Politicians since FDR have used government programs to buy votes, democrats more than the republicans. After 70 years of "entitlement" mentality, it's nearly impossible to get people off this addiction. Coccaine is easier to quit than this.
I always thought we should gut the federal department of education and move all the responsibilities to the states. After all, why should a bureaucracy 3000 miles away tell me how best to educate kids over here?
Get rid of HUD (housing and urban development). Of course Jesse Jackson and Co. will scream racism.
There are too many things we should get rid of in our $3.1 trillion budget. The one with the least amount political ramification is military. Of course the military is what allows us to have all this crap in the government. No security, no pork.