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"whining"? Awesome. There's some sort of emotional involvement on your end. Good for you.Unless you think Big Bird still needs needs bird seed put on the table for him by the government then please quit whining about a specific example and look at the big picture. When looking to cut costs, there s nothing wrong with starting by cutting the things that make you say "why in the **** are we spending money on that?" That's not the reaction overall to military or other big things, so much more analysis has to go into budgeting those than the two brain cells it takes to cut some smaller things.
There's nothing wrong with cutting crap from a budget.
But that's not really the point I was making.
I was pointing out that touting a plan to shave 0.0001% of the budget offers no rebuttal against a claim that Romney's is just talking the talk and is not actually serious about the budget. It's not exactly something that gets a budget hawk fired up. It's pandering to some other demographic with a very thin veneer of budget hawk lain next to it.
You should tout things that actually are meaningful. The little things which are a fraction of a fraction of a percent, leave those for the details rather than you big picture speeches. Unless the point he trying to make isn't really about the budget at all.
He's pandering to some group other than people who're serious about the budget. People who're serious about the budget realize that he's talking about something less than chump change.