good stuff! live it. let's make it happen America!
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Mandatory entitlements take up over 50% of the federal budget. Would you tell me what you are talking about?
First, that which you refer to as mandatory entitlements include a lot more than just aid to poor people, and a heck of a lot of it is "force extracted" in payroll taxes, such as SS, Medicare.
Also on that list are government worker and military pension payments, which also happen to include all of the high dollar federal retirees and their bloated pensions that exceed most private sector plans by a large margin ... never mind exponentially larger than the meager SS pittance sent to poor granny. And let's not forget the $175,000 per year checks to the likes of both Bush's, Slick Willie etc., they receive for life ... as if these Multimillionaires actually need the dough.
In total, the actual aid to poor people is indeed just a drop in the bucket, when you consider the several Trillion dollars (off budget) handed to Billionaire bankers over the past few years .... which would have been enough to make every welfare recipient a freaking Millionaire, and another couple of Trillion annually for "Black Budgets" that the congress critters aren't even allowed to know how much or for what purpose those funds are spent.
But the real bugaboo comes in with the financial scamming of the system with over 616 Trillion in currency and credit derivatives, and 116 Trillion in unfunded liabilities which equate to over 1 Million Dollars per US Tax Payer. The total US Debt (public and private) is 55 Trillion .... or $662,000 per family or $175,000 per person.
When taking into account all of this, public assistance, and food stamps is not much more than glass of water compared to the Atlantic Ocean.
And I thought conservatives were against big government intrusion into their lives. Whoever wrote this drivel wants to control every aspect of citizens' lives, right down to their housekeeping. Are the brown shirts available in the website store? A DVD on goose-stepping with style? Unbelievable and the height of hypocrisy.
Not true, it would be voluntary. Nothin in life is free.
No doubt. You don't have the intellect to put things in perspective.
You could care less about corporate crime, absurd defense spending, corporate greed, government corruption ( when your side is involved) THIS IS WHERE THE MONEY IS.
What really gets you mad is a fat person using their food stamp card.
No wonder you vote GOP.
Gee-wiz Professor Padcrasher, tell us all about corporate crime. Then tell us what the corrupt federal government which you seem to have such faith in will do about it except model their methods after it.
The Tea Party Movement opposed the bank bailouts and the bailout of GM and Chrysler. Now liberals have finally taken to the streets to join us in opposing the incestuous relationship our elected officials have with the sleaziest of the sleazy in banking and finance. Well, better late than never I suppose.
As for these people who sell their souls to government in exchange for free food, cell phones, and the like, they are volunteers, not victims. What p*sses me off about a fat person using their bridge card is that while I hold down two jobs a person who chooses to not work at all eats better than I do because they entered into a sleazy deal with Democratic elected officials in which he or she exchanges votes for stolen money. Knowing their benefits are stolen from future generations makes them accomplices after the fact.
Democrats had control of the entire federal government for two full years, but in the end, after all the chest thumping about tax cuts for the top 1%, what did Democrats do? They waited until the midterm elections were over, then they extended these very same tax cuts in exchange for more deficit spending. Eff the Democrats who refused to stand their ground and eff the RINOs who agreed to more unfunded spending. The only thing these two groups consistently agree on is screwing the next generation.
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Whoever wrote this drivel wants to control every aspect of citizens' lives, right down to their housekeeping. Are the brown shirts available in the website store? A DVD on goose-stepping with style? Unbelievable and the height of hypocrisy.
