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Originally Posted by SykkBoy
explain this to me...I know it's very popular to say "we want a smaller government" but what do you mean by that?
Should they get rid of all of their office staff, fire a bunch of cops, school teachers and DMV workers? That would be a smaller government and even more people now unemployed.
Our DMV is already talking about unpaid furlough days for DMV employees. My fiance's mother, who works for the school district is having to take one extra unpaid day off per month and 7 people in her office of 12 are getting laid off in November, just before the holidays....well, there's smaller government...
Do want government out of your life? How much so? Should they stop funding new roads, hiring new cops and firefighters? Stop building schools? Get rid of the FDA (ok, admittedly this organization is pretty much useless anyways)? Where do you start and how far do you go? Also keep in the mind the people factor...you tell a government office they need to cut their budget...guess what gets cut first? It's not the salary of the head of that office...they will cut out staff...leading to more people unemployed...
Maybe we should cut military spending...bring some soldiers home and face a job market that is already scary and now will be worse. God forbid they need medical attention from a VA hospital...my ex-father-in-law saw how bad that was and that was before all of the talks of budget cuts.
Btw, Vendzilla, this isn't an attack on you, rather, everyone who talks about smaller government and don't really specify which part of the government they want made smaller...
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I know it's not an attack
we need to stop being the police of the world, cut back on military bases all over the world, that would reduce a lot right there.
The fed should stay out of the states business, that would get rid of a bunch more. The states pay the federal government, the smaller amount it pays, the more that state can do for itself, like education and highways.
Did you know that with the first budget that Obama signed as president, the size of the government went up 10%
Use our troops to stop the human and drug traffic across the border
Have any idea how many Spanish translators we have?
Make it so one parent has to be a citizen for the kid to be one, that would save BILLIONS, and for those that think they add to the economy, well they do, to mexico's by wireing home money all the time, go talk to a western union agent and ask how much just from that outlet
As far as the job market, get rid of NAFTA and trade like we use to, adding tariff's, that would make more companies have plants here.
Prisons are overflowing, make prison a place you don't want to visit, the way Sheriff Joe in Arizona runs his camps, with Baloney Sandwiches and pink jumpers, they get one cable channel, DISNEY