Cuyo
Training a Guineapig army
That's the point - The piddlin crap you guys usually recommend cutting usually amount to a cumshot in the ocean compared to "Defense" spending.
I recommend cutting Social Security and Medicare, plus eliminating almost every non defense department.
You cannot 'cut' Social Security and Medicare without hurting the people the government has made dependent on these programs. But you can reform them by beginning now to slowly and incrementally privatize them just as they have slowly and incrementally grown to the unsustainable burdens that they are. And they should be gradually and carefully transferred to the states to manage so as not to break faith with those already entrapped within them while ensuring that future generations will not be saddled with a permanent and ever growing economic albatross around their necks.
'...the government has made dependent on these programs?'
Why did you feel it necessary to slip that poison pill in there? It's so disingenuous.
I think the bigger issue is this - Recipients of those programs have paid a specific tax into the corresponding fund their whole lives, ALL THE WHILE paying a higher federal tax rate than we enjoy today. So how can you argue that hedging their benefits to prop up the current generation's lower taxes is fair or just?
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