In this day and age, service men and women are fairly compensated while on active duty. However, they are never fully repaid for the sacrfices they make while serving. That's a cost that cannot be calculated.

I think that there is some truth in what you are saying, the law of large numbers says that the more resources in an inefficient system dictates a higher amount of waste will be generated. However, I think there is some proportionality to it as well. Even if the government had fewer dollars to spend, there would still be ineffiencies, that's the nature of bureaucracy. Our system is intentionally inefficient, in some ways that's a good thing because an extremely efficient government would be very, very good at controlling the things it has power over. Liberty suffers in such a system.

Starve the beast, it will get smaller.

Maybe, I don't know his history but he seems genuinely outraged. (D) McDermott looks more like the guy you are talking about.

Sadly, I've heard several radio people (one local guy who seems like a moderate republican type and Dennis Miller) say that this is of no concern to them. I think that same sentiment is held by most people in this country and consequently, this story will have no traction.

Civil religion accepts all forms of deviancy and knows no righteousness.

The Right needs to find effective ways to confront the tyranny of the Left. The Tea Party movement was massive. The Chik-Fila protest was brilliant. We need more events like the Chik-Fila event that people on the Right can participate in. That event was so effective and powerful because nobody felt like a kook doing it. All you had to do was buy a chicken sandwhich and you were making a political statement.

Do you know who the big winner is on Obamaphones? It's Mexican media mogul Carlos Slim aka The Richest Man in the World. His finger is in that pie in a big way. Crony capitialism is multi-national.

Outrage would require luccidity or at the very least, having your eyes open.

You did not give the government any money for "tax cuts". The idea that a tax cut is an expense is predicated on the idea that all the money belongs to the government.