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Thank goodness I saw the libertarian light! :)

I have yet to meet a Libertarian who is on Social Security or Medicare admit to me that they are part of the problem.

It is always "their money" and they react in anger to any notion to the contrary.

This nation is spending historic lows on Defense as a percentage of GDP, and historic highs on Entitlements.

Defense is the only Federal agency that is justified via the Constitution.

Moreover, the men and women who have served the military in recent years have suffered and sacrificed more than any other group of Americans. Multiple deployments, families torn apart, horrible wounds, stress, and loneliness.

Yet, the answer from most Americans is "Don't cut mine."

The sheer volume of money being thrown at Food Stamps, Unemployment, and Entitlements staggers the imagination, and yet that is exactly what we are not cutting.

It’s a well-kept secret, I know, but I did run for president last year.

Throughout, I was explicit in spelling out that in the first place, the New Deal and Great Society programs, including their centerpieces, Social Security and Medicare, are absolutely unconstitutional. Which means those who continue to fund them are in breach of their constitutional oath. And secondly, that they are a crude Ponzi scheme that cannot be sustained in any case.

I debated Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party extensively, and finally, after hours of pressing, got him to admit that these programs are not constitutional. And yet, he continued to defend them. Said they were a “contract.”

I proved that they are not a contract. The Social Security Act makes it clear that Congress can change the terms any time it wants. And there is a Supreme Court ruling from 1960 that backs me up on this.

“But we paid in all those years. It’s our money.” No, generations of politicians lied, and stole the money, and spent ALL OF IT. “Your money” is LONG GONE.

The only way you can keep the Ponzi scheme going now is to lie and steal from a different group of Americans, and enslave our posterity via crushing debts that cannot be repaid.

It is immoral to strip posterity of its God-given, unalienable right to government by consent.

And again, it is un-Constitutional, in that the crowning stated purpose of that Constitution is “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity.”

So one giant pile of money is gianter than another which means the smaller pile is inconsequential?

If I’m broke and I borrow $200,000 to buy a Rolls Royce Ghost and $400,000 to buy a Rolls Royce Phantom, are you going to tell me that it was crazy to buy the Phantom but reasonable to buy the Ghost?

Does the constitutionality of one means of burdening us with taxes and debt make any difference if we are plunged into an economic depression?

And anyway, per capita military spending is up.