Bush Calls for Eliminating Program for Needy Seniors (Drowns Bag of Kittens, Too!)

JSOnline via AP ^ | February 9, 2006 | Frederic J. Frommer

[BruceS]

"You try to stretch your budget a little bit," Mayek said. Without CSFP, she said, "I would have to adjust. But I raised 11 children. I know how to cut corners."

I have an idea. Why don't her 11 children provide her with some food? I would (and do) gladly donate monthly to my church to provide some assistance to the poor - which is how those whose families are unable or unwilling to help could be helped if this program were eliminated.

Liberals want to be charitable with my $$$

[martin_fierro]

Bush Calls for Eliminating Program for Needy Seniors

Women and children affected worst.

[Constantine XIII]

If there's no more government cheese, what will we eat in our van down by the river?

[dfwgator]

I have no problem with making sure seniors have enough food and shelter, since our society has pretty much abandoned the principle of caring for their elderly.

Precisely because people have ceded that responsibility to the government. That's how it is in Europe, and that's why thousands of elderly die in heat waves in France.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Now, don't pick on Grandpa Simpson! When his girlfriend died and he inherited $106,000.00 from her (for a month-long romance, LOL!) he took that money and upgraded his Retirement Facility.

Plus, he's a WWII Veteran. And his radical ex-wife left him for The Weather Underground, and good riddance. :)

(I think I watch too many Simpson episodes if I know that much about a fictional character just off the top of my head, LOL!)

[Sir Gawain]

"I call it misplaced priorities. How do you justify doing something like this, while at the same time giving people like Herb Kohl huge tax cuts?" said Kohl, a multimillionaire.

Then why don't you use your money to start a charity instead of making me use money I don't have to fund it? Dumbass.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"While we're on the subject, why do we have so many freaking welfare programs?"

Ask Lyndon Baines Johnson, father of "The Great Society." He introduced the expensive and inefficient social programs we're stuck with today in the mid-to-late 1960's.

"Anyone have an idea how much money they must cost to just administrate?"

Don't know the exact figures, but I've heard Rush say time and again that social spending constitutes SIXTY PERCENT of our national budget. Gawd!

[Dave Olson]

"How do you justify doing something like this, while at the same time giving people like Herb Kohl huge tax cuts?" said Kohl, a multimillionaire.

Oh, cry me a river. Mr. Kohl, nobody's forcing you to take a tax cut that you don't want.

If you want more of your money to go to the federal government, it's easy to do. Just write out a check for that amount, make it payable to the "United States Treasury", and mail it to the IRS. You can do that any time you want, nobody will stop you, and the IRS will take it.

[socialismisinsidious]

I heard that 2/3 of our budget goes to "entitlement" programs...these people (the getters and the gettees) need to read the Constitution and We the People need to demand reform!

[socialismisinsidious]

And let's not forget the people that sat in NO...waiting for the government.

[CyberAnt]

And .. the logic is these people "don't want to sign up for food stamps" ..?? Good grief! Are people that spoiled?

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Could our Senator be any more USELESS to us? Grrrrr!

Apparently yes...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Please! I'm TRYING to eat my lunch, LOL!

Yeah. He's a real piece of work, too. Much more dangerous than Kohl, though, as Kohl is asleep at the wheel 99% of the time.

What is it with JUNIOR Senators from our states? (Wisconsin and New York, and...) They're all commies!

[calex59]

How did the elderly survive during the good old days of the 1800s?

Back then people took care of their relatives, mom and/or dad lived with their children. That is why they had so many back then, so they could share the burden of taking care of the old folks. You could afford a house that was big enough to put the folks up because you weren't taxed out of it. Lot's of things need to change if we go back to the way things should be.