Bombing Other Countries is a Good Way to Solve the US Debt Problem

"My opponent’s duty is to coherently show that bombing other countries is a good idea.The quotes shown above were made by my opponent to show that the US debt isn’t a problem. However, that isn’t the debate at hand. He is not arguing that the US debt isn’t a problem, he is arguing his system to overcome debt, which in his own words, is to “bomb all countries in the entire world with love, compassion, freedom, gentleness, and inspiration.” So, these statements are unrelated to his argument and don’t help him establish his viewpoint.My opponent also gives information about Keynesian economics. I won’t provide the entire quote, as it is too long. However, I will also point out that this has nothing to do with his argument. This economics lesson of sorts doesn’t allow him to meet his burden of proof nor does it help him build his stance."Haha, yes it does. TheCommonMan has skipped over a large part of my whole argument that attempts to diagnose the problem at hand.In my previous response, I called into question exactly how the debt poses a problem. TheCommonMan thinks that a reduction in the debt will solve any problem the debt poses, and in order to reduce the debt we should reduce spending. However the easiest way to reduce the debt is just to mint a few trillion dollar coins and be done with it that way. This is perfectly legal under the Constitution because the US Treasury can mint a coin and assign any monetary value it wants to it. You see TheCommonMan doesn't understand the US debt. What if the debt is actually a good thing? What if the debt provides people with the opportunity to own homes and start businesses? I'm in debt, but it doesn't pose a problem to me. In fact it allows me to own a home and a car. Debt can be a good thing.I honestly don't see how the US debt poses a problem right now. It will be a problem in the future if we let it get out of hand, and its to this potential crisis which I have always been referring. If wreckless inflation of the money supply continues to increase then we will be seeing huge ups and downs in the markets. Ultimately this goes beyond the US debt, but in fact you can't talk about the US debt without talking about economics and the money supply in general."First off, I never made a mention of this idea. My opponent insinuates that I suggested this idea. However, I never did. In addition, this also doesn’t allow him to meet his burden of proof or strengthen his argument. Hence, these statements are pointless."This is my idea, not TheCommonMan's. My idea is that in the future, robots will continue to take jobs and will eventually take all jobs. It has happened in the past, and even Bill Gates thinks its inevitable. "My opponent says that my idea isn’t a good idea. However, he never explains why my idea is bad. In addition, he never explains why his theoretical bombing idea is better. Hence, he has not made a strong enough argument to convince anyone that his idea is a wise one."Your idea doesn't necessarily need to be a bad one in order for my argument to be true. However, we can actually see if your idea is viable because it has already happened.Obviously we all want our tax dollars to be used in the most efficient way possible. No one likes to pay taxes, but since we aren't living in Utopia, we all are currently centralizing certain authorities and responsibilities such as roads, schools, military, social security, medicare, welfare, ACA, EPA, police, and a whole assemblage of other departments. It seems like there is quite a lot of government to feed, and I won't argue that. However over the past few years the government has taken quite large cuts in spending. http://www.whitehouse.gov... As a matter of fact, the deficit has been literally cut in half. That's a whole lot of spending cuts! Let's see you try to cut your spending budget in half! Obviously a lot of unnecessary and perhaps even some necessary spending has been cut out of the budget. TheCommonMan must be absolutely thrilled! What more can he ask for? One of the biggest spending cuts in our nations history has happened over the last five years, yet the national debt still continues to climb, and it seems there's no stopping it. What kinds of spending cuts is TheCommonMan proposing? Do we dismantle medicare and abandon all of America's elderly people who rely on this for their health? Do we dismantle social security and use the social security taxes elsewhere? Do we dismantle what's left of the military and allow trade lanes to deteriorate due to piracy, and let poor countries kill each other in civil war? Do we handicap the FBI and CIA? Do we cut OSHA and the EPA? The truth is there is a point where spending cuts reach a point of deteriorating returns. Any more spending cuts might reduce the debt, but it will only create larger problems that will eventually need to be addressed in the future, and it may in fact require future governments to create even more debt to the solve the problems that extreme spending cuts cause today."Once again, my opponent doesn’t fulfill his burden of proof here. He mentioned that a famous scientist or engineer might come from a different part of the world and that if we do this theoretical bombing now, then the famous scientist or engineer will help reduce our debt. However, he doesn’t directly show how that would occur. It’s just a weak assumption that my opponent makes. In addition, it is more rational to believe that a famous scientist would not help eliminate the US debt than to believe that he/she will. Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, and Alan Turing were all relatively recent famous scientists from countries other than the US. They did not help solve the US debt problem. How would another famous scientist from a foreign land help if they didn’t? Simple, they wouldn’t. This is an irrational argument made by my opponent."My idea was the idea that robots will do all the work. We need scientists from all over the world to do this. Keeping a culture of compassion towards humanity and an inspiration to achieve great things will help us get to this point.TheCommonMan has again moved the goalpost by saying we should eliminate the US debt. If we want to eliminate the debt then let's just have the Treasury mint a few trillion dollar coins and be done with the problem. But, see, the problem really isn't fixed at all haha. The problem is potential in nature. It comes from a culture of selfishness and use of force. It comes from a culture of gimme gimme gimme! We need to change our focus to greater things and higher goals than this. "In this round, I have responded to all of my opponent’s major claims. However, my opponent didn’t respond to all of my claims. He never talked about the fact that other countries may become angry when this theoretical bombing occurs. Until he addresses this argument I have presented, he will not be able to show that his idea is a wise and efficient one." In response to the idea that other countries might become angry, I just have to smile. Sure it might anger other countries with laws and cultures that promote hate and violence, but that's exactly what we should want to do! If someone gets angry because their fellow humans love them, should we stop loving them and start hating them? Haha no, the right thing is to find out why they are angry, and then try to help them. Also its important to realize that culture 'bombs' are not things that are strapped into planes and cast forcefully onto unsuspecting victims. It actually doesn't involve force at all. You see if a person doesn't like what's on the tv, they can turn the channel. If a whole country doesn't like the tv show Cosmos, then they can censor it. As a matter of fact many middle eastern countries have censored Cosmos when it talks about Evolution, but that's another debate haha. I just want to say in conclusion to this round that the debt problem is way bigger than a simple reduction in digits in a computer. It requires a change in consciousness, a change in culture throughout the whole world. If we in the United States can foster a culture of love, compassion, freedom, gentleness, and inspiration in the whole world then we can build more complex robots and better technologies that will solve problems that includes anything the debt potentially poses. (This also includes dropping these culture bombs on our own people too! No one should be spared haha.)