If you want to cut the budget, then you have to be prepared for programs that benefit you to get the axe. Either that or some taxes will have to go up.
We are running a 1.5 trillion dollar budget defecit a year and the fact is, unless you want higher taxes, then entitlements will have to be cut sometime. On the current tax model we can’t keep our promises, even without the stimulus, or Obamacare, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
the programs you mentioned are irrelevant. the amount of money on those programs are small, and the fact is they were not entitlements (pensions and health care programs). The entire non-defense discretionary spending budget of the government is 500 billion or so.
most people, both in government and the private sector, have seen a loss in benefits in the last 10-15 years. Medicare has seen repeated cuts and changes. Private health plans cost far, far more today than they did 10-15 years ago and provide less and less every year.
Fact: Active duty military and veterans have seen among the smallest cuts (they have been exempted from most budget cutting)-—many private employees would love to pay that kind of money for benefits.
see post #70
Bullshit. I've received a tiny annual raise at my job for the last couple of years. I have received zero cost-of-living raise in my retired pay, ditto for social security recipients. Has any other welfare program seen zero growth, or actual loss, in the last two years? No.