re: OT- Let your state reps know how you feel

What the idiot libertarians always forget is that the majority of deficit spending is in a category called "mandatory spending"- that's when a new spending bill gets passed in 1986 and includes an automatic 5% increase each year. That's not something congress or a president can just "slash", it requires a repeal of the original bill. And there's thousands of them. There's some idea out there that some true conservatives or libertarians could just reign all this shite in quickly if given power, but it turns out that you can't. It's a bad situation, but using a dumb number like "3.5 trillion debt" as some kind of half-assed knock against republicans is either ignorant or deceptive.