by Kyle Konetzke

Created on: August 31, 2008

On basic principle, Yes. This is the argument plain and simple. We're in debt from spending too much. We spend less, we save more, we have no debt. It's ALWAYS that simple with money. It doesn't matter what we invest in; military, stocks, money markets, banks: it's all the same. Sell what we can, at a profit or loss and stop spending so much. It's that simple to fix the debt problem. For instance, I was in debt. I had a cell phone, a car, and a school loan. I was working a well paying job, not enjoying the money I earned because it all seemed to go for this debt or that debt. Well, I sold my car, bought a bicycle. Sold my iPhone, use a friend's or an establishments phone. This concentrated my money flow to one bill, and I have eliminated my debt. The country should do the same.

If you're opposed to the war, you obviously agree. The war is taking up more than HALF of our government spending. If we get out of the war, we cut spending in half already.

Now as to what we should spend our money on, that's up to the american citizens...to a point. The constitution does have some say in what government is allowed to do. Government agencies can be created, but we must remember the lessons learned from the agencies we have now. They become corrupt, soil the american dream, take away liberties and freedoms, and eventually help bankrupt the nation. The service provided by these agencies always should outweigh the cost inherited by the agency. The federal reserve is an agency that is causing us to go bankrupt. Printing off more money than we have, NO GOOD. The FBI, CIA, NSA, TSA are all bankrupting us and providing us with NO FREEDOMS only taking them away. They used to be around to protect us from terrorists, now they're here to protect us from ourselves! Nobody wants to be told how to act. Why do we still pay taxes when all these agencies take away our freedoms? Why do we still pay taxes when it all goes to a war we don't agree with, or crooked politicians that do as they please on our dime? All these taxes we pay to be told to stay in check, keep focused on our work and family and to keep paying taxes? One Third of our money is taken away from us before we even see it. ONE THIRD! And our government has dictated where that money goes for us without our input. We spend it on roads that need repairs every few years, wars that kill innocent human life every second, military that are trained to kill, police that collect our money long after they're released for Beating someone nearly to death, Agencies that raid houses for simply belonging to someone who voices an opinion about an unpopular political policy. Our Government was created as a republic that does not infringe the rights of one person in order to protect the rights of even two million other citizens, yet we all must pay taxes for things we do not want or use. Social Security that we may not see. Retirement we may not enjoy. Roads we may not even use. Petroleum that we are all opposed to as it pollutes our air and destroys our atmosphere. We pay taxes on products that don't even come from our country that were bought by a corporation for a small price and then hiked up for us to buy and pay an unfair tax on. And all of this is set in stone before we even get our paycheck. In a constitutional republic, this should not stand. In a nationalist authoritarian fascist world, all of this is implied.

So, should government spending be cut in half? No, government spending should be all but eliminated!

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!

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