[John H K]

Get outraged at the correct stuffso you aren't wasting your time...people never do in the budget. They get all hot and bothered over the National Endowment for the Arts, Foreign Aid, Congressional salaries...all of which are such trivial parts of the Federal Budget they are, essentially, irrelevant.

[Eternal_Bear]

Billions in foreign aid every year is irrelevant? You are talking like the elite. Common Americans don't think so.

[Right of Buchannan]

Well, true enough, what’s 2 Billion in aid to Egypt when you total up all the money we spend building nests for Coho Salmon or a road between two points no one ever uses. Most of the money in the budget is spent on pork projects.

However, the mitigating factor is that it’s American money spent in America, on Americans. I get a lot less P.O.ed thinking that my hard earned dollar is going to keep some Nevada construction worker employed than I do realizing that it’s being spent on giving a Rangoon Sewer Rat free inoculations that when own my kids need, I have to pay for.

Given, I’d rather not pay for any of it, but it’s degrees of outrage…

[kennyo]

Get outraged at the correct stuffso you aren't wasting your time...people never do in the budget. They get all hot and bothered over the National Endowment for the Arts, Foreign Aid, Congressional salaries...all of which are such trivial parts of the Federal Budget they are, essentially, irrelevant.

Okay,the money is trivial.But it's the insult.For example how much do you think it would cost for the federal government to harrass the Freepers?A drop in the federal bucket,I'm sure.But the action would get many people hot and bothered,presumably,yourself included.It's not so much a question of "how much",but "what for?".The recipients of this money generally hold the US in contempt anyway.