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by osnium123 789 days ago
As long as the US government can afford to run with trillion dollar deficits. Once the budget cuts take place and the defense budget gets cut by half, all bets are off.
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To appropriate a quote “you’ll take my guns from my cold dead hands”.

There’s only one thing the agree on in DC: defense spending is the most important line item, and everything else is secondary.

Also, turns out when you have the ability to take virtually anything by force the concept of “deficits” is a bit fungible.