Our debt is crushing. We now pay more in interest payments on the debt than we pay for defense. If we don't cut spending, we'll find ourselves in a series of Argentinian-style credit crises.
USAID is a fun punching bag because it's been run for a long time by lefties who thought they were utterly untouchable. Still, that's not where the real money is. The real money isn't in the Department of Education or a lot of the other standard targets of the right.
No, the real money is in entitlements. We won't be able to get the deficit and debt under control until we tackle entitlement spending.
So why start with the small fry like USAID?
Well, when the time comes to have a conversation about cutting entitlement spending, it will be a heck of a lot easier to have that conversation after you've cut absolutely everything else to the bone and beyond.
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