Uh...cut spending?
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No, I'm serious.
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I'm really serious.
[Sound of crickets chirping.]
OK, never mind.
I think this is why Bush (and the Rs) will have a big problem if he is re-elected in the fall. You've got troops in Iraq that appear to be there for the long-haul--I'm guessing that Iraq will be an issue in the 2008 election, too.
The government is going to have to come up with both the soldiers and the scratch to pay for long-term operations in Iraq, and I'm not sure where it is going to come from--it's either going to have to cut domestic spending by drastic proportions (something with which I have no problem, but given the attitudes of Congress and voters, something not likely to happen) or raise taxes. Bush and the Rs are really between a rock and a hard place here, and I'm not sure how they are going to get out of it.
how many decades have passed while we've tried to - ahem - cut spending? .... (crickets chirping, sagebrush rolling)... has spending been cut at all? have we continuously increased speniding during these last decades?....
that dog won't hunt.