We cannot afford guns and butter. And the politicians will choose butter. Right now the entitlement programs consume 44% of the budget and another 8% is spent on servicing the national debt. These costs will continue to rise. America’s days as a superpower are numbered regardless of who is in the WH. Obama is just hastening the decline.
Of course, someone could defund the butter, but that will not happen until after the total colapse and civil war.
Ironically, it is only funding the things they are cutting/defunding (modern mil weapons and manned space programs) to get more butter which would reinvigorate the economy and provide more butter, but then that would not allow for total take over by the Communists and institutionalizing the one party system.