[TheRealThing]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011

The Budget Control Act of 2011 doesn't have any agreed cuts in it. In effect, it amounts to congress holding a gun to it's own head in an effort to force the dems to cut something, somewhere. Because it is unthinkable to place the whole of American citizenry at risk from military action from without, the republicans wrongly assumed that such a drastic dereliction of congressional duty, would be the 'red line' the dems would dare not cross. Wrong, they are more than willing to reduce our military to levels insufficient to protect our land. Thanks to the moron liberals that now permeate our government, military secrets are a thing of the past. Therefore, our enemies are more than aware of our military capability to respond to a threat. The la-la's aren't worried because they believe everybody in the world is eager to get into the "imagine" club, ala the vision of John Lennon.

The only reason America remains free and unchallenged by rogue armies from around the world is because of her military deterrent. This is what happens when pot heads get into positions of leadership. These are lyrics from Lennon's "Imagine" album---

"Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world"

^The words of this sentence, is at the heart of the concept of social justice, and is the driver of liberal dems. Only a loser of epic proportion, could believe a situation such as is described in the text above, could ever exist on this earth. Americans are so far removed from want, they don't know how ravenous the wolves that stalk us really are. True believer liberals buy into it hook, line and sinker and, are doing their best to bring it to fruition. To say liberals are naive doesn't quite cut it. So, we come full circle. The dems will not cut spending or spending increases, and the republicans will not raise taxes. If you'd have told me 10 years ago that working folks would demand to be taxed more, I'd never have believed it.

The preamble to the US Constitution lists national defense, as one of the five functions of the federal government. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence" How about we just agree to eliminate the waste at the federal level, as sort of a 'rolling start' enroute to making some meaningful spending cuts?