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Originally Posted by acrylix
The fact is that serious budget cuts need to be made if we want to bring the U.S. economy in for an emergency landing instead of a violent crash. I think the average American is beginning to realize this.
Also, Ron Paul certainly falls into the "so-called libertarian Republicans" group which you spoke of when claiming, we "won't hear them say a word about the enormous military industrial complex." However, a simple YouTube search proves this claim to be false:
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The majority of his policies would never stand a chance making it through Congress. His budget proposal would decimate funding for a lot of worthwhile projects. Not to mention erasing 1 trillion from the economy would shrink the economy by basically 1 trillion. There is no way the private sector would come close to filling that right away. The private sector already has trillions in cash. Even if you believe that is the appropriate size of the government in the long-run this would still be absolutely devastating in the short to medium run. That's not an emergency landing, that's a fucking kamikaze landing.