re: #51 sattv4u2

waytomissthepoint!

I would respectfully suggest that it is you who miss the point.

The problem with suggestions like cutting the Stennis center (about which I have no opinion, since I have no idea whether what it does brings us as taxpayers good value) isn’t that we ought not cut, it is that a bunch of cuts that are, in sum, not financially meaningful are being presented as if they are meaningful. Cutting a bunch of .002 cent programs and declaring victory does not solve the problem, unless the problem you are trying to solve is purely a PR one.

Matching rhetoric to actions means, in the context of making meaningful progress against the Federal deficit, tackling entitlements, the military budget and the revenue side of the ledger. Proposals that fail to do so are exercises in political kubuki that deserve our contempt.