[editor-surveyor]

>> “The real answer is deep cuts in government spending and abolitions/repeals of regulations, starting at local levels (e.g., county zoning ordinances against small manufacturing shops on lots more than five acres in the middle of nowhere). Then a high-speed rebuilding of the manufacturing base with inventions and innovations mostly coming from the small shops (larger pool of ingenuity without interference from contemporary academic, political or business so-called leadership).” <<

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Short of some kind of war, how might you achieve that?

You will never see any cuts in government again. Government will grow exponentially for the forseeable future.

[familyop]

"Short of some kind of war, how might you achieve that?

You will never see any cuts in government again. Government will grow exponentially for the forseeable future."

Big government cannot continue "big" without revenues of value ("sustainable" revenues--heh) from big manufacturing. The default process will be completed here. Bond investors will take their haircuts. So will all who receive their incomes directly or indirectly from government.

Political/regulator folks: don't blame me for what you're doing to yourselves (not necessarily you, editor-surveyor, but them). All who have really produced (manufacturing, farming, mining, all), take care of yourselves and your families by the following.

Avoid buying anything that you don't really need. Become more self-sufficient each month, and learn to manufacture something useful as a hobby for now. Be nonpolitical (that is, disrespect disrespectful politics). Those who do otherwise are going to lose.

The spenders...let them spend. ;-)

[S.O.S121.500]

“”Short of some kind of war, how might you achieve that?
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Brand a ‘P’ for parasite on their foreheads and shun them?

[DuncanWaring]

Government will grow exponentially for the forseeable future.

Unless you define "forseeable future" as "a few years", that's mathematically impossible.