Originally Posted by
Nevjets
When I look at my budget and notice that 2% of my budget deficit is being wasted, I'm going to cut that out as part of the process to balance my budget. It makes absolutely no sense to keep wasting that 2% and find another 100% of my overspending to cut! It makes perfect sense to cut the 2% and find another 98% of what I'm overspending on.
And like I said, I'm all for cutting 10% on EVERYTHING and then going in and COMPLETELY illuminating waste. And after all said and done, we are under budget, divy up that among things like the DoD and other administration priorities.
This all makes sense unless there is some other hidden agenda.
I somewhat agree with you but there are areas of the budget that shouldn't be cut at all. You start cutting some important areas of your budget just for budget reduction sake and you end up spending more money in the long run due to the damage caused. At the very least though, spending should be frozen in every possible area and 10% cuts in other areas and larger cuts to the wasteful programs until the deficit is gone and budget is balanced. It's idiotic that our POTUS wants to increase DOD spending by $60 billion while we have a $600 billion deficit. I agree with you, wait until the budget is completely balanced before you start increasing spending on areas of priority such as DOD. And cutting massive funding to the Coast Guard to pay for the wall is more idiotic.