The National Debt

The nation's defense is actually a rare constitutional directive of the federal government, unlike the entitlement/welfare state. It's funny, liberals are all the same, whether it's at the federal or local level. At the federal level, whenever the budget needs cutting, liberals' knee jerk reaction is to say cut spending on the one area (defense) where the gov't has a constitutional mandate to the benefit of the welfare (i.e. slave) state. At the local level (and we've seen this all over the U.S. the last 24 months), when the budget becomes tight, liberals start cutting the police and fire department so that the unionized regulatory bureaucracy remains, even at the expense of public safety (see Newark, NJ and St Louis, MO).

The one thing I've learned growing up in a highly politicized and highly liberal Washington, D.C. is that liberals are as predictable as objects under the laws of gravity and talk like a broken record.