[bolobaby]

You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.

Everyone with half a brain understands that there is NO WAY to stop the current government gravy train without severely impacting the economy in the short term. The economy will recover in time and come back stronger than ever, but we have to take our lumps based on the strong dependency we’ve created in the economy for government spending.

[Jim Robinson]

If the government can tax, borrow and spend its way to prosperity, we’d all be rich.

By the way, just how big is $9 trillion dollars (or whatever the size of the debt Obama has run up)? How much per household would that be if he would have just written us all a check? (actually, I think he did for about half of us).

[cripplecreek]

There are about a million things that can be cut with little domestic public anger. $100 million for an Aquarium in Brazil may be a “Drop in the bucket” but there are enough of those drops to fill a supertanker.

If Brazil doesn’t like it, maybe they should think long and hard what it means for us to pay for their “companionship”.

[SkyPilot]

You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.

I am not saying you are bolobaby, but a lot (a lot) of Freepers here are absolute hypocrites regarding government spending.

Where they stand is where they sit. And where a lot of them sit is they are all for cutting something, as long as it isn't their own entitlements.

There are two kinds of entitlements: earned and unearned.

Earned entitlements are Social Security, military pensions, and Medicare.

Unearned entitlements are Medicaid, Food Stamps, Earned Income Tax Credit (a giveaway program), Section 8 housing, and TANF.

I consider unemployment checks paid beyond 6 months to be in unearned welfare category.

Many Freepers are either on Social Security or want to get it. If you argue that our national defense is being eviscerated at the expense of our entitlement society, expect a war of words and a fight on your hands.

That is because they know something has to give, and they don't want it to be "theirs." I almost considers these Freepers to Conservatives in ideology, with an Obama entitlement mentality. Call them "Co-Bamas."

There is no question that Defense spending is on the "good spending" side of the equation. You cannot be a major player on the world political and economic stage with a 2nd rate military. And we are heading towards a 2nd rate military - fast.

Billions of dollars are generated by Foreign Military Sales of our products, one of the last, real things we manufacture that nation's of the world want to buy. Defense spending drives jobs in research, engineering, contracting, medicine, and manufacturing.

Now everyone is shocked (SHOCKED) that we cut spending under Obama I by $500 Billion (over ten years, but still by $50 Billion last year) and it adversely affected the economy!

Well, Sequestration kicks in 1 March 13 - and it is even worse.

Enjoy it America!