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Yea The POTUS can ask for money to have a WORTHLESS Military parade but we need to cut entitlements!?
We spend THREE TIMES what the next biggest military budget by any other country and I believe more than the next 9 largest military budgets!
"Beware the Military Industrial Complex" -President and ALLIED COMMANDER Dwight D. Eisenhower.
So here we are... about 375 posts into this thread. As near as I can tell, there are three camps:
Camp 1: My gosh. We really have a problem with entitlement spending. While entitlement spending is the generally accepted descriptor, some people object its negative connotations. A less emotional descriptor such as transfer payment is preferred. Well, we still have a problem with the growth in transfer payments. During economic downtimes, we really do need such transfer payments to help those who have lost their jobs, etc. But now is an economic boom time. How the heck do we get transfer payments/entitlement payments under control?
Camp 2: My gosh, there is no problem. All that needs to happen is to raise taxes on those with high incomes, where the definition of high income is $1 more per year than the person who is suggesting the tax increase earns. If raising taxes on those people isn't sufficient, just raise taxes more on someone else, somewhere else in the economy. Start with insurance executives.
Camp 3: Some wackjobs arguing for the sake of argument say the problem is we don't have enough entitlement/transfer payments, because, well, they like to argue and chuckle at their own humor, and even though this is an economics forum, they argue that economics is obsolete.
OK, maybe there is yet another camp:
Camp 4: Incoherent rambling filled with vague adjectives and adverbs that seem to add up to an assertion of conspiracy.
It does seem all the posters are in agreement that something has to change. Given the wide disparity in political viewpoints among posters, it would seem Congress should be getting the message that virtually all citizens, be they independents, Democrats, or Republicans, want to see some type of action.
My take is we, the people, aren't shouting loudly enough at our politicians to get get serious about working on a solution. We are indirectly a part of the problem inherent in our passive political behavior (myself included).
Sam Johnson has introduced one bill in Congress to restructure SS, but it has gone nowhere. Even though I'm not a fan of his proposal, I would like to see the bill debated in Congress to get the ball rolling.
posts deleted and thread closed because: adult tantrums.
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