We can massively cut back on the military by bringing the troops home, and save a shitload of money in the process. Unfortunately, we rarely think about cutting taxes and government spending in the good times like you suggest and I agree with.You are so massively stupid. I'm stunned.
We are stuck with deficit spending and eventual dollar devaluation, one would think. The debt doesn't really need to be paid off, just let devaluation make it palatable. Fuck, as I have advocated elsewhere, just print/electronically create the shit to pay our debts - after all, they are denominated in dollars which we create.
China sends us shitty products, we pay them in dollars. We borrow from them, we pay back in dollars - we print them if we have to do so. Kinda like a magic money tree - the Federal Reserve. Either the greatest Ponzi scheme/counterfeiter ever - or a brilliant invention by our government.
1913: The Federal Reserve System is Born
From December 1912 to December 1913, the Glass-Willis proposal was hotly debated, molded and reshaped. By December 23, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, it stood as a classic example of compromise—a decentralized central bank that balanced the competing interests of private banks and populist sentiment. Originally Posted by DSK