Talking about cutting government spending is apparently like the board game "Operation"

[ck4829]

Remember that game, right? Where one had to cut out tiny problems (play on words, like "butterflies in stomach"), while at the same time avoiding the sides of the area they are cutting the problem out of?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_%28game%29

But yet, in real life, things aren't quite that entertaining.

Politicians and the 'liberal' media are always talking about removing this, cutting this program, privatizing that, etc. But yet, nobody wants to talk about the biggest part of our budget, which is military spending.

It's a third rail in our politics, a deadly electric buzz in real life, many times more severe than the buzzing noise one hears if they touch the sides in the board game mentioned earlier, ironically enough.

Everyone wants to take a sledgehammer to our social programs, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT CAREFULLY, lest you cut a military program and look like a pacifist.

It's not just teabaggers BTW, it's the media, it's the culture, and it's the government that all view our country and our futures as one big board game.

We need people willing to take a good look at the biggest part of our spending and start making some cuts. Because you really can't cut back if you don't cut the biggest part out. You aren't going to get buzzed.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Many of them think life is just a computer game.

And a war game, so they think by having wars, it will keep their overlords happy. Really messed up delusion, and not all people think it, but it is probably part of the idea behind 'over there not over here'.

The idea if you do what some wrong overlord says you have to, then they wont treat you bad.

I figure it this way, if that is true, I got maybe 100 years of the BS to get through at most, but if they are wrong, and existence is actually good, then well things will work out ok for those that think and feel and try to make decisions on what is best not because of fear or other motivators. I will say that the Taliban's treatment of women is bad, it is a form of trying to make them property. But there are other ways to solve problems, or so I choose to hope.

I think you don't have an overlord when you don't do something just because someone says it.




Edit: Note the BS is what goes on in many places, and that does not have to be part of a persons thoughts.


AC/DC - Thunderstruck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w

[Cresent City Kid]

2. Does all this military spending benefit the country?

Even if you accept the claims of the right that World War II ended the Depression after the "failure" of the New Deal, how do you explain a recession during two wars? What's changed? Is everything being built by robots, or just a few well paid workers?

Every statistic about our military ends with "... times more than the rest of the world combined." Meanwhile, our greatest threat, terrorism, is being quietly handled by US and foriegn law enforcement. We do need to rethink all of our spending, and you're right, if we don't include military spending we're just playing games.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. And when they "remove" some social program

it's like they're the girl in the commercial who takes out the "wrenched ankle", and we're her opponent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw-ZLTRuYuk