Considering the massive overspending in Defense/Homeland security we started after 911 the idea of spending less is APPEALING! The rest of the world combined can only forward deploy 1 piddly useless carrier. We can forward deploy 3 SUPER CARRIERS... oh no with budget cuts we can only forward deploy 2 SUPER CARRIERS. Quick everyone panic!

WTG on the Weimar Republic comment! Still ponder and respond to my comments below. PS: Rome did the same thing as they were importing practically everything in order to survive! Gee... sound similar?

continuing... One of these Wars was thrown in Afghanistan. A country that the Mongols, USSR, China, Pakistan, British Empire, etc. couldn't subdue. Way to go on paying attention to 1500 years of History. The other in Iraq, a country that Reagan and Bush 1 actually gave a bunch of debt/deficit money to supporting and building the Army we would blow up not once but twice! WTF?!? Then we have Obama, he does suck I know that, but given the last 32 years of History... exactly what would imply that Republicans could (WANT) to do any better? The only thing holding us back from the Abyss is the TEA Party! Insisting that small Fed government actually means, serious, no gimmicks, reductions in real annual spending!

Reagan didn't reduce the deficit/debt while throwing a roundhouse 8itch slap to the USSR daring them to FUBAR their economy any further. Bush 1 didn't reduce the deficit/debt and threw a War while not increasing taxes to pay for it. Clinton actually did reduce the debt/deficit by gutting Defense spending with a boost from Gingrich and better Welfare system (note: this is the both ends must suffer approach that actually works) [extra note: this actually gave us the Internet strangely enough as the Defense product was moved to Academia and Private control]. Bush II immediately drove us further in debt/deficit. Then doubled down by throwing 2 Wars and creating a whole new Fed bureaucracy.

"The federal government stands $16.4 trillion in debt, three times the debt level inherited by George W. Bush just twelve years ago." *** This phrasing obfuscates the debt that Bush added by himself. "A Republican House majority, a Democrat-controlled Senate and President Obama spending us deeper into these dangerous red-ink depths..." *** This phrasing obfuscates by mentioning Democrats twice and Republicans once. It does nothing to point out that full or partial control by Republicans or Democrats has essentially zero effect on deficit spending. The only obvious element to either parties approach is what I mentioned, either guns or welfare.

Pretty neat how Mr. Jacob skipped Prez Bush in the whole Obama has tripled the debt that Bush inherited comment. Lest we forget Bush lowered taxes, increased the debt, and threw two wars funneling 1 trillion dollars of debt money to Wars and Homeland security. That was fiscally responsible how? Not that I'm a Democrat or like the way Obama is handling things. Far from it! But right now my political choice is for a party who massively overspends "trying to help people" and a party who massively overspends "trying to kill people". Guess which one the average American supports!

Gee, what you see as "fake conservatives" screwing things up, I see as "true conservatives" holding the fat cat massive government RINOs feet to the fire. McCain lost because none of us saw him as a "true conservative". Ditto Mr. Pretty Milquetoast what was his name again? When we are defining a "true conservative" we are looking for someone, anyone, who actually voted in a real way, not the fake votes that will never pass, but a real vote for a budget cut that actually passes. Give us this much, give us a candidate who held spending in their venue to ZERO growth. For real, not screwing with the numbers ZERO growth. Give us one who actually reduces real spending in a factual negative value and we, the "true conservatives" will rejoice!