A bankrupt government will shelter no army, no army will accept its role is to provide services for free. Those protectors, when realizing our state of bankruptcy, will destroy us all. Capital exhausted by these crippling taxes, bankruptcy discouraging foreign investors, we will be the laughing stock of the world next to China. Our government will be doomed to failure if you shall be so insistent on the army's loyalty once it is left to starve. It will benefit both the soldier and the farmer, just not the officer who loses troops. And you, Mr. Carrera, are one of those officers.
We're at risk? Luxuries? Ha! Bread is not a luxury, government is not a luxury, money to feed a household is no luxury! What need have neighbors to crush us right now? What grievances do they have against us? Unlike you, they do not have irrational biases. The bankruptcy you wish to impose on us in your interests will be the cloud that ensures the sun never rises, then the sun shall rise for our enemies and only our enemies. At least by imposing fiscal prudence, God and the Sun will shine upon us.