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Originally Posted by Moses
Government tends to mess things up when they undertake any task; welfare, Social Security, Medicare, etc. Government is pretty good at oversight; ensuring fair play, protecting civil rights, etc.
The government has grown by 60% in the last dozen years. Insane! I don't believe that any government will ever voluntarily limit their power or scope. With that in mind, I would like the citizenry to decide exactly how much government we are willing to pay for. After a binding budget is assigned, let the parties argue about how best to allocate the limited resources.
With that in mind, here's what I want from my government.
1) Lower taxes.
2) Stop legislating morality. The government should stay out of peoples private lives.
3) Corporate bailouts and corporate welfare should end NOW.
4) We are a Republic, not an Empire. We need to dramatically scale back our military ambitions. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq. All political and moral failures.
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I could not agree more with #4. What many people fail to understand is that the cost of the military is mostly in manpower: recruitment, training, salary, health care and the big velcro bugger, retirement funding and retirement health care.
We need to get everyone home and do a complete restructure of military roles and missions.
We then need a complete review of every government agency, roll back indexed budgets and mandate a 50% cut in manpower and budgets.