Americans Clamor For Budget Cuts But Have No Intention To Enact Them

Americans preach abstract budget cuts that they have no intention of implementing. 

These fiscal pharisees' foremost pleasure is lying to others to distract them from the fact that they're lying to themselves. 

What budget "line items" would a majority of Americans actually cut? 

There's just one...

Foreign Aid
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/foreign-aid-as-percentage-of-gross.html

When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/when-electorate-is-this-stupid-is-any.html

Foreign Aid As A Measure Of American Stupidity

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/foreign-aid-as-measure-of-american.html

Americans will not agree on enough budget cuts to lower the deficit by more than a fewer percentage points. 

New Poll: Same Public Resistance to Cuts

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2011/02/new_poll_same_public_resistanc.html

Gallup Poll: A Majority Of Americans Wants To Cut Foreign Aid. This Is The Only Majority Favoring Any Proposed Budget Cut

http://www.gallup.com/poll/145790/americans-oppose-cuts-education-social-security-defense.aspx

Most Americans Want To Cut "Wasteful Spending." Few Agree On What Wasteful Spending Is

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/wasteful-spending-poll_n_2886081.html

How To Make Spending Cuts That Would Actually Balance The Budget. Most Americans Clueless

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2014/02/13/what-to-cut-from-americas-budget-n1794588

The Most Popular Spending Cut, Supported By 57% Of Americans: Cutting Subsidies To New Nuclear Power Plants. 

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/03/03/207625/poll-spending-cut-subsidies-new-nuclear-plants/

Visual Aid: Just How Insignificant Are Those Big GOP Budget Cuts We Keep Hearing About

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/11/visual-aid-how-insignificant-are-those-big-gop-budget-cuts-we-keep-hearing-about/

Americans think foreign aid comprises one third of the nation's Gross National Product. In fact, foreign aid amounts to 0.2% of Gross National Product, 150 times less than The Dimwits think.  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/foreign-aid-as-percentage-of-gross.html

As for raising taxes...

Benjamin Franklin On "No New Taxes!"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/benjamin-franklin-on-no-new-taxes.html

Most Americans are threatened by the prospect of thinking and avoid it by spouting middle school sound bites as platitudinously comforting now as they were then.

The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their own eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.

Psychological Projection

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/projection-psychology.html

Psychological Shadow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)

The Evangelical Persecution Complex

(Projection's Finest Hour)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-evangelical-persecution-complex.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, although they are prone to believe all manner of Trumpeted nonsense, none of them are tempted to believe in their own spiritual peril. 

The Pharisees Are Always With Us.

Here's What They "Look Like" Today

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-pharisees-are-always-with-us-heres.html

Except, of course, for the loaves and fishes.
But never mind. 
If you can rationalize Trump, you can rationalize anything.

"Even In Victory, Trump Can't Stop Airing Grievances" 
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/even-in-victory-trump-cant-stop-airing.html