A Good Start

Tuesday 17 August 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + Economy + Government

The Wall Street Journal on the national deficit:

At $1.47 trillion, the federal deficit this fiscal year exceeds all defense and nondefense spending at Congress’s discretion by $110 million. In other words, lawmakers could eliminate the entire military, all federal education, agricultural, housing programs, federal prisons, the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Coast Guard and border patrol, and the nation would still be in the red.

I don’t know that I’d go so far as to eliminate all of those programs, but this list seems like a good start.

Off the cuff, my vote would go for, in order, greatly reduced, gone, gone, greatly reduced, greatly reduced, greatly reduced, greatly reduced. We are go to have to readjust our expectations of what services a government ought to supply.

2010-08-17  »  madlibertarianguy