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by _DeadFred_ 33 days ago
Reminder that for the last 40 years one half of government, the Republican party, has had as their policy 'starve the beast' by allowing rampant spending and cutting taxes in order to make this very claim 'look at how inefficiently we spent your money (when our policy was to create this very situation). Look at all this debt (we intentionally piled on in order to cripple government).'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast