Every single day of the lastmiserable decade, the U.S. Military has pissed away more than $16 million in fraudulent contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's $60 billion thrown away on wasteful handouts to Pentagon contractors during the wonderful War On Terror -- $60 billion thrown away without even killing random goat farmers who committed "terror" by being born in an impoverished country that happened to be a good, out-of-the-way place to test robot death planes around the clock. And these numbers come not from some external objective accounting project, but from the U.S. government itself. So, the numbers are obviously lies, and are probably off by several hundred billion dollars. Let's cut Social Security benefits from a program that's fully funded from people's paychecks, because "entitlements" are bankrupting the country!
Back in the '50's, people took advantage of the Cold War to push through funding for completely unrelated things (like the National Defense School Lunch Act). Why not do the same thing now? Skim off a few billion for the PATRIOT High-Speed Rail Defense Network, the Anti-Terror Health Insurance Program, the America First! Solar Power Act, and so on.
Back in the '50's, people took advantage of the Cold War to push through funding for completely unrelated things (like the National Defense School Lunch Act). Why not do the same thing now? Skim off a few billion for the PATRIOT High-Speed Rail Defense Network, the Anti-Terror Health Insurance Program, the America First! Solar Power Act, and so on.