Ben England
Dec 21, 2018 · 1 min read

Umair, I’m an American taxpayer and I’m here to tell you that America is the opposite of austerity. We we have a one-trillion-dollar budget deficit, bigger than many countries’ budgets! Personally I believe budget deficits should be illegal, and that they steal from future generations. So so this entire article is based on a falsehood.

But you may have a point about how America prioritizes spending. Having a bloated defense budget budget while young people can’t get an education or people can’t afford health care doesn’t make sense.

I don’t see other countries following America anymore, quite the opposite. Many of them are quietly forming alliances with other countries and leaving America out. I voted against Trump twice, but unfortunately there are reasons why he got elected — terrible alternatives. the US has become a senile, paralyzed government, but the idea of freedom and democracy is still a powerful one and may still find expression elsewhere. Dictatorships or communism or religious states are fundamentally flawed — people are not meant to live like ants. None of them are alternatives for me.

Go ahead, criticize the US! We can take it, and we will defend to the death your right to do so! But be careful criticizing Mr Putin, for your own sake.

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