If you shrink the federal budget to avoid doing so, you're just going to make it so others will meddle with you while you can't meddle with others.

It's like shrinking the army so that you can have peace. It doesn't work that way

Yeah, i'm the ignorant one who thinks shrinking the federal budget will somehow make other countries stop meddling with other countries. -_- What a genius idea., Next if we print enough money, we can stop poverty