Dear Bwaney--may I call you buttboy?--there's a kernel of truth in what the S&P said during their downgrade on Friday.
ENTITLEMENT SPENDING MUST BE REDUCED. Did you miss that part?
Now, I know you pretend to be a smart guy, and I'm going to use NUMBERS and FACTS with you, so please don't get confused. I know that tight neck shirt and tie you always wear has cut off the circulation to your brain for many years now, sort of a long-term breath control game or whatever sick shit you turd-tappers have in your bag of tricks, so back away from the David Carradine impression, loosen up, and get those three remaining brain cells firing so you can comprehend this.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy11/pdf/hist.pdfNow go to page 59. Look at it closely. National defense, a Constitutionally mandated function, accounts for 19.6 percent of the federal budget. That's 4.9 percent of GDP. Now look at "Human Resources". Those include things such as Social Security, Medicare, "Income Security" (read: welfare), Health, and Education/training/social services. Of all those human resources, only veterans benefits and services could really be construed as "essential" or mandated Constitutionally, and those account for less than 5 percent of the "human resources" spending anyway. THAT spending accounts for 64.7 percent of the federal budget (and remember, veterans benefits account for 5 percent of that, or about 3.4 percent of the federal budget) or 16.2 percent of GDP.
So, you pillow-biting, Elmer Fudd-sounding, mouth-breathing, booger-eating, worthless waste of existence, as you can plainly see, defense is NOT the problem when a function MANDATED by the Constitution (oh, there's that pesky word again!) is outspent by something NOT mandated by it by something on the order of 3.5:1.
Of course, YMMV.
