Originally Posted by Justice Strike

You all think too difficult about these kinds of issues. Answer is simple, hire someone from enron or ahold to cook the books. Who really is going to notice?

Originally Posted by Anikdote

For sure, lets slash the defense budget and ignore the pork spending.

Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha

Democrats, unfortunately.

Originally Posted by farmer_fred

You'd prefer no one notice that books are being cooked?

Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha

Become guns for hire. We have the most awesome military in the world, and we police the world. We should expect to be paid for our involvement. At very least, this will put us out of places that don't want us. It will give us more money. It will cut costs. It will improve foreign relations. People will not say America's an over powering nation, they will beg for our involvement.

And of course we can always go into places we absolutely feel we need to be involved in.

However, we should also keep in mind that this will create a lot of enemies, which means our homeland security will need to be top notch, and our military might grater than any, but over all we should save money, become safer and more liked.

Originally Posted by Drewster

Or we could scale back our military industrial congressional (and arguably think tank) complex. Military/defense spending is so much every year we could save tons. At that point I bet we would be spending less than taxes bring in for sure. By scaling down the military we would make less enemies too. We could probably cut back on a lot of the intelligence services that are primarily military run at that point. We could probably cut back or eliminate atrocious bureaucracies like the Dept of Homeland Security too.