[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

Having picked our pockets to the limit at the Federal and State levels, the tax-and-spend locusts are putting the heat on local officials to keep their gravy train flowing by raising local taxes, on top of everything else. They resent every dime left in the pockets of citizens who create the wealth they believe they have a right to mooch.

Solution to government deficits: CUT SPENDING. Starting with the bloated "defense budget", and continuing with the secular religious institutions known as the public schools. The school systems are indoctrination centers, not learning centers. For details, see: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

The Underground History of American Education
A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation
Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm

For links to the book chapters, see:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

[John O]

Starting with the bloated "defense budget"

Defense is one of the few things that the Feds are constitutionally allowed to do (Defense, Foreign relations and interstate trade). If you want to cut lets start with welfare, education, interior, endowments for the arts and humanities etc.

We can sell off illegal federal lands (the fedgov has no constitutional authority to hold forests and non-DOD reserves) and have enough to pay at least one years worth of the budget, especially since the costs of maintaining these lands goes away and the lands start producing revenue again.

Defense is not the problem in the fedgov.

[Aric2000]

The Bloated "defense Budget should NEVER be lowered, it should be the BIGGEST govenment outlay, that is it's MAIN job.

SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, all these damn grants, highway funds, etc, etc, should be gutted, this is not the fed's job.

Public schools should be privatized and vouchers should be the beginning of the end for them before cutting them off from the public troft completely.

Cutting defense, Not in my lifetime you don't, I like freedom, thank you very much.

[justshutupandtakeit]

If cutting the defense budget is the kind of thinking in those links no one should bother going there for anything but nonsense. We may have to increase the defense budget before our enemies have enough.