How Do You Cut Your Budget?

       How do you go about cutting spending by over $500 billion a year plus increase spending on the military by up to $58 billion per year? How do you do this without cutting some extremely important programs? Programs like, I'm sure, food stamps (a favorite whipping post for Republicans), and very many necessary programs and departments. Departments like Education, Environmental Protection, oversight of Wall Street and banking, the CDC, food and drug safety, and the big one, Obamacare.
       They definitely want to defund this one. They hate it so much they can't sleep at night. They hate it even though the Insurance industry likes it, hospitals love it, even most doctors approve of it. Nowadays even consumers are approving of it. In fact even some of those who hate it the most are quietly taking part. Folks like Tim Huelskamp, Tea Party exec from Kansas and others.
        So how do you make this draconian butchering of the government and it's duty to it's citizens sound like a good thing? Easy. All you have to do is go back to the idea that Trickle-Down actually does work. That and convince the public that banks and manufacturers are good decent people who will happily police themselves and protect the public from any and all harm. After all, the very idea that these fine upstanding profiteers are in business to protect humanity, not make profits is completely truthful.
       In fact, it's so true that there has been some talk of eliminating corporate lawyers and actuaries. Because after all, if these fine upstanding corporations and banks don't really need oversight, then they won't need lawyers to steer them or accountant mathematicians to tell them which are the most cost affective choices. That's because they always side on the safety first choice.
       That only leaves the poor among us who will suffer. But then a little pain and suffering is good for the body and soul. So if this plan is followed, the poor who have been unable to get a job that pays a living wage, or two or three jobs to make ends meet will now get even less help. That'll teach em not to be poor.
       And the cutting back will do a couple things. It will cause the public to spend more to invigorate the economy, and will eliminate $5.1 trillion from the debt, because if the government owes less on debt, we should spend more, right? Which will surely encourage each of us the spend even if we don't have any money ourselves. Because the government owes less. If this makes sense to you, we're in deep doodoo.