[Fast_Eddie]

Just look at the Federal Budget.

Google it now. I'll wait. Find a pie chart that includes everything- including SS Medicaid/Medicare...





Got it?

Okay. Can't cut the lines I mention above. You'll never get elected again. Unilaterally assured destruction. And we keep hearing we have no money. Now, say we cut *everything else to zero*. Of course you can't really do that, but for the sake of argument. Just keep Military, SS, Medicaid/Medicare.

What do you see? Ah. We have a problem. If we want to "cut spending" like I keep hearing, there's only one place left. Starting with huge projects that cost untold billions, have shown limited success and were designed for an enemy we, for the most part, no longer face seems a good idea to me.

As much as we talk about the money we spend on illegals, or welfare, none of it adds up to a hill of beans next to the big lines. It's not that the politicians don't hear people yelling "cut spending". It's that there is nothing to cut that will make any real difference that wouldn't be political suicide. No Tea Party will change that.

If we get Nuked, I don't think it'll come in over the North Poll. I think it will be in a Ryder truck. Probably get here in a freight container on a ship. And there will be nobody to shoot a missile back at. No MAD. Just us, dead.

Just thinking out loud.

Take care,


Ed