The government has a never ending appetite for money. The more they get the more they spend.
We need to have a balanced budget amendment. I would accept those national defense items to be exempt yet still fiscally prudent. Neither POS political party will ever go for a balanced budget. They are all thieves in one way or another. Besides national security, if the federal government was gone tomorrow, it would hardly make a dent in peoples lives unless they were dependent on it or worked for it.