11-22-2016, 03:22 AM
(11-21-2016, 11:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The chart was for discretionary spending.
Eric the Obtuse still doesn't get that all spending by the government is discretionary. The entitlements are on autopilot unless Congress chooses to change it. In order to get spending under control they will have to lower entitlements spending or allow the dollar to be destroyed by inflation.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises