RE: Tea Party candidate taken behind the woodshed by an old man asking a simple question
June 21, 2014 at 1:55 pm
(June 21, 2014 at 1:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(June 21, 2014 at 12:56 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Tea Baggers (sorry, I refuse out of respect for the actual patriots of the same name to call these posers the name they've arrogantly chosen for themselves) live in a fantasy world where there is hundreds of billions of dollars in waste that can be painlessly cut out of government spending without impacting anything.
We could cut defense spending in half without impacting our capability for DEFENSE at all. ( OFFENSE? That's a different story. )
The problem with cutting defense to the point where we have no offensive capability would likely result in the loss of seignorage we enjoy from being in control of the worlds reserve currency.