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Originally posted by The Sword
Reply to post by kro32
Cut the defense spending first.
Trust me, they are playing with fire.
Also, if you pay into a program, you're entitled to it too!
It just seems easier to call people "leeches" and refuse to look at the bottom line.
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Why hasn't the Tea Party suggested cuts in the defense budget?
Originally posted by watchitburn
Most people don't realize this but our troops are tired and pissed off.
There is no clear objective in Afghanistan anymore besides come home alive with all your limbs intact. THAT IS ALL THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT AT THIS POINT!
Tell them they have to go fight another war in LIbya and they will probably tell the Govt. to F***k off.(congressional approval or not) It has seriously gotten to this point.
Originally posted by SpeachM1litant
Could the conspiracy be(with the cutting of social programs) that America is continuing its steps towards an economic reform of an extreme version of laissez faire pioneered by the late Milton Freidman?
Originally posted by The Sword
reply to post by mayabong
Talk the talk but will he walk the walk?
This is RAND Paul, not RON Paul.
Aqua Buddha, not Libertarian Dynamo.
Originally posted by Aristophrenia
reply to post by The Sword
Medicare and Medicaid are fully funded and are fully funded through 2050 - thats an ABSOLUTE FACT.
Originally posted by Aristophrenia
The reality is that tax cuts to the rich, wars, are being funded from this pool of funds while simultaneously DEFUNDING the programs.
The real question you ALL need to be asking is why - and here is the answer.
Private enterprise, corporations , want to privatise these last remaining areas to get their hands on these GIANT funds of public wealth - one of the greatest prizes corporations could imagine - and they have been trying for decades. Bush awarded Lockheed the contract to handle Texas social programmes - it was over ruled by Clinton.
This is the truth.
The right wing control of the talking points go like this : -
Instead of blaming the bankers for stealing the wealth of the nation and destroying the savings of the sates, unions, retirements of millions blame the unions for asking to high wages, instead of allowing people to focus on the truth that the Banks and Wars have destroyed the US budget surplus blame the fully funded medical and health system of the country. Dont call it the health system - call it entitlements. Dont call it profit - call it job creation, don't call it stuimulus call it debt, etc, etc.
The saddest thing in Americas history is that the middle and working class of the US believes what the Republicans and Tea party are telling them via the most powerful corporate propaganda machine ever created.