National Debt
March 5, 2010admin 1 Comment »http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-03-05§ion=2&id=3
I had a moment this week where I remembered that the way to be a better writer is to write a lot. Usually, I stress a little bit about what I’m going to write about, and most of the time I’m not totally happy with what I settle on. I think that’s mostly because I have no clear sense of what is interesting for other people to read (i.e. my student body) and receive almost no feedback, so it’s impossible for me to tell if I’m making any dent whatsoever.
This week’s article was inspired by the TIME article that I mention in my article. If you actually go and read the TIME article, you might find some similarities between what they said and what I had to say. It’s hard, especially when there is so much political commentary out there, to make your work something other than derivative. I do better with that some weeks than others. What I did try and do, and what Mark Thompson of TIME did not, was convince someone more conservative that reducing military spending was okay. I find I’d much rather convince someone that would usually be unconvinced to move five feet than convince those sympathetic to me to move a mile. If anyone of a conservative bent read my piece and though, “Hey, maybe not a horrible idea,” then I think I win.
Posted on March 11th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I’d consider myself very conservative politically (in general, at least), and I don’t understand why we spend so much money. I think cutting military spending is a sound idea. You lay out several reasons in your article, and I have to say that I agree with this article completely.