Originally Posted by Tempest

Everyone says stop spending on the military yada yada yada.... so... what jobs will all those people get? Stop buying so many bullets and planes??? What jobs will the laid off military contractors get? Stop spending on this.. stop spending on that... cut the budget... well to cut the budget means cutting jobs.. Any company that "trims" their costs or restructures to deal with mile high debt, ends up cutting jobs... and there are no jobs out there for those people... So one way or the other, the government will end up paying people anyway whether it's welfare or whatever.

As far as I'm concerned, the problem has become so massive over decades of abuse that it's too fucking complicated and painful for the politicians to be able to do anything about. Not if they want to keep getting elected cause the masses are too stupid to grasp what it will take to fix everything. It will take a financial collapse to force the issue.

There is one big difference between the government and the common person.. The common person that does what they do ends up declaring bankruptcy... The government can't. They don't have the luxury of walking away like people and companies can.