Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

That's a real good point. When people whine about welfare and stuff in our society, they don't realize it's an extremely small part of our federal budget. The money is in the things you mentioned.

Sad thing is that if we paid our debt off and didn't have to deal with interest payments (which I believe are about 16% of the budget), we'd be able to do a ton of shit like national healthcare, major infrastructure overhauls, etc that would benefit this country. A lot of that stuff would actually create jobs in this country too.