Everyone has an opinion. Mostly uninformed emotionalism. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It was Karl Marx who said that everyone should be involved and have an opinion. He might have had the time, seeing as he didn't have a job, and been smart enough. But that doesn't apply to everyone.
Most people can give your their opinion on virtually anything. Because most people are aware of the world they live in. What most people do, however, when they run across a "professional" -- or some one who works in a given area, say nursing, or architecture, is to defer their opinions -- or lessen their stridency in regards to those opinions. But when it comes to "politics" there is not only no abatement in their ferocity, there is often a great increase in their exclamations about this or that aspect of a subject.
But if you're going to have an opinion on the federal budget shouldn't you have at least read some of it? Most people will tell you their favority parts of the budget to dislike -- and it usually boils down social programs, "welfare," from one side, and the military for the other side. Yet when you ask the person -- "well what is the military budget" -- not only can't you get an answer or educated guess -- but the percentage given is usually so far out of whack as to make the opinion worthless.
I have heard many a person say "the military budget is too high." And it might well be when examined. But what is the military budget you ask them. "it's half the budget -- it takes all the money." And that is just not the case.
And so with opinions we must carefully delineate what is based on fact and what is raw emotion. Those opinions on emotion are not valid. Particularly when it comes time for voitng. And that's why it's ok for 1/2 the people to not vote in the United States -- they are simply uninformed and they couldn't "vote" seriously on the issue if they tried. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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