Capitol Hill Has Eyes 4

There has never been an instance of a major nation addressing such a deficit solely with spending cuts.
This ideology will be put to the test upon our bones. If we survive, the country will have shrunk beyond recognition. All the Mad Max films will come to be seen as prophecies, and the future historians will shake their heads in wonderment.

All my life I have had a grudge against the Government taking my money. But the Government is not an entity apart from ourselves. What the Radical Republicans envisage is tantamount to putting a tourniquet on an infected arm and leaving it there until gangrene sets in. You have heard them say "Starve the Beast." However, the beast is ourselves.
We must change ourselves, and not go to the lengths of plucking out the eye that offends us. Put on better spectacles!

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