That's a dumb dumb dumb dumb statement. We're bankrupt now BECAUSE WE DON'T CUT THE BIG STUFF.
We're going to remain bankrupt because we can't cut ANYTHING. Our budget crisis will fade when only one thing happens:
Spending is brought inside the Constitution. And that means cutting everything we can cut when we can cut it, if it's dangling outside the protection of the Constitution.
That we also must explore spending inside the Constitution and cut that as well, goes without saying. But there's no point in whining about the big unconstitutional stuff, like social security, education, welfare, and Obamacare, if you're not willing to cut the little stuff.
Cut NPR, do it. THen what? Are we really any closer? Are we going to say "well we cut NPR, so I guess we can go after the military now"?
The military budget is mostly Constitutional and requires a different approach. It requires that the public elect presidents who will use the military to serve only America's interests, not their own short-sighted political needs. In a word, it requires a mature public. A mature public won't whine for NPR, if they want it, they'll contribute their own money for it.
But other than that, yes, cutting NPR successfully allows those with the itty-bitty nose-hair clippers to buy something bigger, like toe-nail clippers, and maybe, eventually, they'll be able to afford a 125 horsepower self-propelled motorized hedge row trimmer or maybe even a genuine corn harvester to trim the federal budget.
but all they have right now are nose hair trimmers.
This is a retarded deflection topic and nothing moe, i takes focus away from where it should be. And even if you cut NPR...so what? You think that money will be saved? You didn't change any dynamics, you didn't restrict government. They'll just spend that money elsewhere.
This is so sad. Mayor Snorkum knows from your posts that you do possess the ability to present logical arguments. Why are you not doing so now?
Seriously, if you want to gain control of the government, you have to use your brain! We can not let the government play our collective ADD against us anymore. We have to focus, we have to pay attention, we must refuse to be taken in by deflection topics. Otherwise, you're pissing in the wind. You're just going to spin your wheels, get us nowhere other than further in debt. Learn to think![/QUOTE]