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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these idiots parroting the line about bloated govt.  Look at the trend here, it's basically flat and includes military employees as well.  If we account for the population increase govt actually has shrunk significantly.

I don't even work for the govt just sick of hearing uneducated idiots bleating out this never-ending nonsense.
  
 We have supercomputers in our pockets, AI, etc. and can't bother to actually engage our brains and let them be smoothed out by stupid sound bites.[/quote]

The government has been bloated since FDR. That’s not an uneducated opinion. As recently as the Clinton administration it wasn’t even a partisan one.

The US Military had decreased in size pretty aggressively over the last 15 years, so the flat trend you referenced isn’t the flex you think it is.

The debt/GDP ratio is headed quickly towards a troubling or unknown point. Regardless of your economic viewpoint, it’s not a good thing. Taxes skyrocketing in the future is essentially inevitable and it won’t be the liberal dream of the 1% getting liquidated by the IRS.

While the Doge attack is hasty and mostly for clicks, a significantly smaller government, in scope and expense, is not just a Republican pipe dream, it’s an economic necessity along with an across the board increase in tax revenue.

The statist’s desire for a big government pushing partisan programming is unsustainable, just like the endless increase in unaudited military expenditure from the right.

Calling this perspective uneducated is small minded. You might disagree with the outcome of cutting gov programs aligned with your ideology, but austerity is hardly a wild take.
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When has austerity ever been anything but disastrous for a country, O student of history?

Answer: never.  It is not the answer and not a solution.[/quote]

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