Why dont We the People take charge of this?
We need to TELL the Government where and where not - to make cuts!
It is OUR money!
I say, give grandma her check and cut off foreign aid. Give grandpa his check and quit supporting illegals!
Where does it say that WE THE PEOPLE don’t have a say in these matters?
I hate to be the one that breaks it to you, but politicians at the local, state, and federal level stopped caring about public sentiment about a hundred years ago. They’ve done a reasonable job of brainwashing many into thinking all of this nonsense is really what they want, or “it’s for the children” or various other techniques to quash dissent, but the mask will soon come off. It has to, because of what’s likely coming. It was all planned that way, if you can believe that. Unfortunately you are talking of a world that no longer exists.
The problem with that solution is that grandma's check collectively is a hundred or two times as much as all foreign aid.
The real problem is that, for 80 years, grandmas and grampas have been trained to expect to be cared for, rather than having been expected to save. Social Security planted the seeds of our cultural and moral decline that looks to be doing us in as a great nation. Thanks for being so short sighted, FDR.