&quot;The real solution is to simply spend vastly less money accepting that pain now is better&quot;<p>Said someone who&#x27;s probably not going to feel much of that pain. The problem with a lot of these &quot;cut spending&quot; mantras is that they usually want to do it in a way that hurts those on the bottom of society most, which is extremely appalling. And many of those &quot;cut spending&quot; people actually want to increase military spending.