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Originally Posted by John
Great, $200B that we can allocate to bailing out homeowners, subsidizing the corn industry, and giving away more entitlements to people who don't deserve it.
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Um, the funds that are being used for the Iraq/Afganistan operations are actually not money in the US Treasury, but rather borrowed money (e.g., from China and other investors). If we don't spend it, we are just not borrowing it. It won't be anything that we can turn around and spend somewhere else. [That is, not maxxing out your credit card on some stuff is probably a good thing, but it really isn't such a smart idea to max it out on some other stuff.]