Listening to NPR and they interviewed some retiree in Montana because his congressman is a freedom caucus member who is taking a hardline on passing a budget. Says the retiree, government must stop spending, they need to change their philosophy about the budget. But they never square the circle by asking why. And that question would lay bare the uselessness of these kinds of interviews. This man could never explain why it’s essential to him that spending is slashed or what’s unnecessary.