Is This How Democracy Ends?

A commenter had some suggestions for cutting spending that I think are excellent.

Bruce

"Pat: You forgot one thing. We can slash military spending by bringing our troops home from all over the world and defend our borders and shores. Ron Paul has calculated that we could save at least 500 billion to a trillion a year if we closed up the empire. Here's a few more cuts.

1. Cut all foreign aid especially to failed states like Israel and Egypt.

2. Get rid of the Dept. of Transportation by just abolishing the Federal Tax on Fuel and letting the state Depts. of Transportion handle it all without Federal overhead and mandates.

3. Get rid of the Dept. of Education, the Carter payoff to the teachers unions.

4. Get rid of Carter's useless Dept. of Energy.

5. Get rid of the Dept. of Homeland Security and the TSA. They are just redundant to what we had before and cost a huge amount of money. Just arm the pilots and let the airlines and local and state police handle security.

6. Salaries and pensions of public employees at all levels of government need to be slashed to a size more equal with the private sector.

7. Lets get rid of the Dept of Commerce and Labor. Two special intrest Depts., that really benefit no one.

This is just the tip of the iceberg as to what has to be done to bring this country back to fiscal sanity."

Feb 18, 2010 @ 10:34 PM Johnny, Pewaukee Wi.