The US has already borrowed $2tn to finance the Afghanistan and Iraq wars

[Lasher]

1. Such discussion is almost absent from our national discourse.

Our military spending has doubled in the past decade, and yet the Pentagon squeals like the pig that it is at the prospect of relatively token budget cuts brought about by sequestration. This spending reduction is not so substantial as to force them to give up even one of their foreign outposts, which is the arena where the very first of cutbacks should occur.

If you eliminate all the Bush tax cuts and all spending associated with the Bush wars, you end up with a balanced budget. I am often met with disbelief when I make this claim because so many people have never heard it mentioned before.