Originally posted by: compuwiz1
I thought, what if the military ran out of money, because Americans, who are tired of it all, suddenly stopped paying income tax?
Then, a secondary thought...crap, the govt, will just print more funny money, ie., federal reserve notes. (notes mean debt). Our paper money has no value, and only represents how deeply in debt this country is.
Sorry, just aimless ranting, or is it?
The Viet Nam war ended under the Nixon Administration when congress DEFUNDED the war machine.
They simply refused to put any more money into the continuance of funding the cost of keeping the supply chain
moving equipment to and from the theatre of war, and the cost of fuel to provide that transportation.
There was no other option than to drawdown the deployed troops, and let Viet Nam go it on it's own,
which they didn't do, and never would have done on their own.
We (the US) didn't loose - we quit proping up a corrupt puppet Government which colapsed under it's own burden to it's people.
As of now, there is not a single penny that has been spent as discressionary spending, it's all under Emergency Provisioning
and none of the costs have yet been tallied against the cost of the War debt to the American public.
A hundred Billion here, another hundred Billion there, off the books & under the table on our financial accountability.
Gonna bite us big time on the ass, very soon.
And an irresponsible Congress just keeps tossing fuel onto the fire.