The plural of anecdote is not "data". Anybody can find some story or another about something that makes them mad. But if all that spending on the printers amounts to .04% of the overall budget for the department, so what?
What waste?
Where?
Define waste?
People about that, but when you start trying to flesh it out, there is less there than one might think.
I am sure there is waste. I am also 100% certain that there is generally less than many on the right think there is, and not in the places that they think the waste is.
The big ticket waste is in the DOD.
Lastly, the size of the debt, by itself, is a pointless bit of data.
What matters is the size of the debt relative to GDP. Further US bonds qualify as debt, and getting rid of that would have a LOT of people ing, because they form the basis of many investment portfolios.
There is so much demand for US federal debt, they are issuing it at super low rates. So all the 30 year bonds that were issued at 7 or 8% are being replaced by 2-3% bonds.
We should be borrowing more, and building/repairing our infrastructure that is, literally, falling down around our heads in places. Our debt is so cheap that our GDP would end up far larger in the long run for having done so.
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