Each time someone rails about spending cuts, I send them a link to the budget page, and ask them exactly what they want to cut. I have yet to get a response that recommends any specific cuts - just a lot of sound and fury about whatever the latest media buzzword is.
The average voter is massively ignorant of the reality of government spending. I've even had someone suggest that the National Park Service and NPR receive more money than the Defense Department. Also, there is a constant meme on Facebook that suggests that all defense employees could be pay by cutting the salaries of the President and Congress. They obviously have no sense of the magnitude of cost of a standing army. I'm all for less spending, but for someone to wave the arms and yell "cut spending" or "kill Obamacare" without any plan or clue was to what that involves is just spin and nonsense. On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Actually, the problems is, although they keep talking about reigning in the > spending, I don't see a lot of reigning going on. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368036 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
