Quote Originally Posted by DJ_MikeyRevile View Post
Furthermore, the people who take this country for granted should be the people we cut from. America has never been a place that harbors the weak and fuels a persons inadequacies for there life time. We built this country on a concept that you work for what you want, you fight for what you want, and you fucking get it because that was what you want. If people like you pulled up there big boy pants and started acting like a battle hardened man, we could fix this country quicker by cutting from shit programs like welfare and the "Super liberal pansy ass hippy give a way fest for the weak" programs. stop worrying about other people and worry about your fucking self. If somebody rots on the side of the road because he or she chose to be a meth addict, i dont give a fuck. They weren't helping our country, and neither are the people abusing the previous programs i mentioned.
But who am I kidding, social programs that compensate for individuals lack of judgment and responsibilities isn't a waste of money At all, but rather funding for the well being of hard working citizens and national defense is.
edit: on a side note. I can only imagine if crab people ruled the world!!!!!!!!!!!
You can keep going on and on about liberal social programs but Obama has, in fact, cut welfare spending and will continue to cut welfare by his last year of his first term by over $100,000,000,000. Of the $882,000,000,000 spent by the federal government on medical aid, less than half goes to welfare and about 60%+ goes to senior citizens. This number continues to grow. Pensions for senior citizens is over $700,000,000,000 for 2011 and growing across the years.

Hospital and medical care for veterans? $49,600,000,000 in 2011. $52,300,000,000 in 2012. $58,700,000,000 projected by 2016. This falls under the umbrella of the overall military budget, which is almost $1,000,000,000,000 for 2011. This number drops by $640,000,000,000 by 2016 projections.

Deficit numbers for 2011: $1.6 trillion. Deficit for 2012 after spending cuts and end of wars: $1.1 trillion. Deficit for 2013 after Bush tax cuts expire and assuming economy doesn't improve at all and no additional cuts are made: $767 billion. Deficit for 2014: $644 billion.


What this means to me is that this country needs more than overall cuts in spending. It needs an overhaul of the health system, which began in 2009. It needs less spending on defense contracts for Lockheed Martin and Boeing and more spending on restoring our foreign intelligence agencies. It needs higher taxes for the people who can easily afford it, especially for the wealthy. The top 10% didn't all of the sudden start working 5,000% harder than the rest of us since 1982 - the game was just rigged in their favor via deregulation and relaxation of their tax bracket.

The country also needs to lower corporate taxes but actually collect taxes at that rate. The corporate tax rate is about 30% but large corporations don't even pay 10% a lot of the time. A corporate tax rate of 16%, paid by all companies, would immediately slash the annual deficit. Small businesses end up getting hammered, though. So, large corporations don't pay taxes and the smaller guys they compete with have to pay too much in taxes. And you wonder why the Koch brothers support the GOP?

Just awful.