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Originally Posted by gunnut
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.
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Actually wasn't the lions share of the federal debt created under Republicans the last 30 years. yeah this is where you throw out GDP mumbo jumbo. The bottomline is republicans have a history of borrowing against our future and cutting taxes not reducing spending or deficits. That way of thinking went out with Goldwater. Who gave us wage and price controls???? President NIXON, May I point to GWB and the Republican Congress of 2000-2006. Well, along with record deficits they gave us record earmarks. Why should i trust then again? They rraised non defense discretionary spending faster than Clinton and cut taxes. Which political theory has you raise non defense spending, go to war, create the largest new entitlement in 40 years and cut taxes? Would that be the Albatross theory of governance?
The only thing I hate worse than taxes is borrowing money form the CCP