Oh please, you sound as hysterical as the Democrats who are always saying things like “Republicans want to poison your drinking water, or kill grandpa.”
So what happens to the seniors living on SS who just barely pay their bills? You have avoided any rational answer to that for many posts now.
You didn’t answer the question; what happens to the people like the lady I described? Just let her die?
(somehow I’m beginning to believe some of you would do just that.)
I don't intend this comparison as an insult, and I am not disputing the facts of the matter. My point is quite different. Every group receiving government money, including those groups that the people here want cut off, has a file-case full of those anecdotes. That's how the programs got started in the first place.
I would like to believe that they do so out of misplaced idealism, but the cynic in me says they do so because the horror stories work. Those stories make would-be cutter back off hard. If you guys put pressure on the politicians to prune SSDI, etc., the liberals will not only roll out their parade of horror stories but also will cast you guys as hypocrites. They'll drag out that now-notorious protestor with the "Keep Your Government Hand Off My Medicare" sign.
Sorry to say, but you're caught in a trap. The "you first - no, you first" trap.
Complain all you want about the welfare cheats and illegal immigrants, but complaining won't change the optics. Drawing distinctions, however true, won't either. The fact is, any politican who tries to get the budget under control will successfuly be pegged as either a heartless cruel brute or someone who's not living in the real world. Successfully.
My only suggestion at this point is, pray that the politicians who eventually are forced to make cuts (a la Greece) are Democrats.