How do we stop the government from spending so much on stupid things?
457151
We stop giving them the money.  I'd be less concerned with the $500 wastes and more worried about the $90 billion wastes.\n\nAnd believe me, they're plenty greedy before they get into office.  They're projected to spend $1 billion on ads for the midterms.  That means there is a lot of corporate money flowing to them and in return there will be a lot of corporate-friendly bills passed next session.
564729
no. the problem is that all this "enforcement" costs money and time and we seem to want these things but then we get pissed when the govt tries to enforce them. Big govt is not good. We need to keep our selves safe. keep ourselves reponsible, and dammit, keep ourselves from dying from hurricanes ALL BY OURSELVES!
100668
Budget. Figure out how much money you need to spend. Make liberal estimates, and save everything else. Then, little bit little, find ways to lower your spending (find better prices for the things you need, avoid extras like eating out, movies, etc).
402925
Nothing at all! This is the best way! Let people do, let people work and live and never bother em again! -income, balance, unbalance etc are always governments creations to make people feel insecure and cotroll em... just think about!
1157089
It's called 'exporting good will'. I agree with you that more money needs to be spent at home.\n\nThe money sent to other countries is just a small part of the budget. It's very expensive to run a government. A better solution would be to cut the defense budget. It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.
224405
Get another job, or stop spending more than you earn.
259176
Look at the blister packing on the majority of products you buy at the major department store's check where manufactured! Economic's and our lawmakers allowed it to happen! Stop buying their products regardless of the cheap price!Oh buy the way they out number us manpower military mightwise and have inter-contential nuclear blistic war heads as some other countries also! China the sleeping Giant! ever heard that phase!
848499
build an electromagnetic pulse generator - that will destroy all of the electronics that they own. that would quiet things down.
936581
Nicking our jobs, nicking our housing, clogging up the supermarket aisles, being arrogant and rude to Brits - need I go on ?? x\nSorry - forgot to add the males that are in their 20's to 30's are laughing their arses off at us as they pay with their £80.00 food vouchers at the checkout - given by the government !!!!!!
302450
Even more sickening is how were SET UP to think that way - how  modern government  makes it so that without money you can't have a decent house, decent food, or decent clothes. And at the same time, television and magazines make people think that they HAVE to have fancy clothes, homes, cars, etc., when that money would be better put to use in charity. As for answering your question, I think that the media and the government have the potential to do a big part in fixing that situation, but whether they will is another question.
250854
Its not like the country is spending too much money on 'butter' its all guns, guns, guns, and tax breaks for those that can afford to pay the taxes and nothing for the poorest of the poor.  Three things will have to occur to get the USA out of this mess.\n  1.  Raise taxes on the middle and upper classes to something like 35-45% income tax.  \n  2.  Stop expending money on the military that ultimately gets spent outside the country.\n  3.  Raise tariffs on commodities coming in from outside the trading block to encourage domestic manufacturing to increase.  You can ship the middle class to China then expect to have a stable economy and political system.  Aristotle was right about the more 'stake holders' in a system, the more stable the system.
1153552
Unfortunately, you're right. Most people don't seem to realize that less than 1% of the population makes over $100,000 per year. The left keeps saying we need to tax them more, but it does the least.\n\n\nWhat the gov. needs to do is stop spending!
702698
Stop for a moment & think. \n\nIt is for sure a good idea to increase what we spend on caring for the less poor& to decrease what we spend on wars.\n\nWars a useuly fought by those that want more of something for them selfs. (Money, power etc.) with little though as to what happens to the children. Those children that survive grow up & become fighters against those that fought against them.\n\nAnd the cycle goes on again.
372297
stop giving them money by not buying stuff made in china, they are taking our money to make their millitary
839458
No. I want the government to spend less in other areas in order to pay for these projects. Too much money is spent on meaningless pork. Too much money is wasted in fraud, waste and abuse. The government needs to do what most families have to do, namely tighten its belt and live within its budget.
119508
People want to cut defense spending, I think, because they have no concept of what the Federal Budget actually looks like.  The 2007 budget is slated to spend about 17% on defense, while spending about 58% on entitlements and about 9% on interest on the debt.  We could cut military spending all day and it would hardly dent the budget.  We need to cut spending on entitlements (medicare, social security, medicaid, welfare) to get the budget and spending under control.\n\nIf you look at US military spending as a percentage of GDP, it is just about at an all-time recent low at 3.7% in 2003.  This is very low.  The USSR spent between 15% - 17% of it's GDP on the military in the mid 80's.
1074339
Whenever the government decides it is. You have no right to receive this money, anyway. It is the government's to spend, not yours.