Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
Your wish is my command. Don't know if it's going to make you happy, though ...

Well, it's not that it'll make me happier- it's that I think it's a more accurate picture. Like it or not, we are in a war with 130,000 soldiers deployed in Iraq and thousands more in Afghanistan. Supporting these troops is going to take a substantial amount of spending.

However, I'm perfectly willing to call out our Congress on their discretionary spending excesses as well as with their creation of new, expensive entitlements and their total inability and unwillingness to deal with the balooning costs of existing entitlements.