DOA. Any politician who cuts people’s benefits/raises their taxes is going to be looking for another line of work.
This will all happen when pigs can fly.
Once a country heads towards insolvency, war almost becomes inevitable. It’s where America is headed at the moment, if nothing changes.
Does it say anything about cutting payments to people who aren’t citizens? Why do anchor babies get welfare? Why does your auntie from India get Social Security?
Want to control medica l costs? Get rid of the profit motive and the leeches that feed off of it.
Big medicine rapes us all with a license to steal.
We have given our politicians blank checks and credit cards so they spent them to the limit. They make secret deals to pay off sexual harassment payoffs at our expense. They steal our social security trust fund to the tune of $Trillions. Secret agencies sell drugs to fund covert operations then make corrupt individuals rich.
Lock them up
The answer to that depends on how much socialism they’re willing to give up.
This story is always treated, and will be treated by the political class, as one of those phony “the sky is falling” tales, and most don’t listen to it and many don’t want to listen to it. But it is no fairy tale. We are headed down the road to Venezuela style insolvency and everyone wants to treat our current national finances like a party they refuse to leave, because as long as the party keeps going they feel great.
Our great grandchildren will curse us.
After looking at LBJ’s “accomplishments” I can see which party has caused a lot of our problems:
With these acts President Johnson and Congress wrote a record of hope and opportunity for America.
1963
1. College Facilities
2. Clean Air
3. Vocational Education
4. Indian Vocational Training
5. Manpower Training
1964
1. Inter-American Development Bank
2. Kennedy Cultural Center
3. Tax Reduction
4. Farm Program
5. Pesticide Controls
6. International Development Association
7. Civil Rights Act of 1964
8. Water Resources Research
9. War on Poverty
10. Criminal Justice
11. Truth-in-Securities
12. Food Stamps
13. Housing Act
14. Wilderness Areas
15. Nurse Training
16. Library Services
1965
1. Medicare
2. Medicaid
3. Elementary and Secondary Education
4. Higher Education
5. Bilingual Education
6. Department of Housing and Urban Development
7. Housing Act
8. Voting Rights
9. Immigration Reform Law
10. Older Americans
11. Heart, Cancer, Stroke Program
12. Law Enforcement Assistance
13. Drug Controls
14. Mental Health Facilities
15. Health Professions
16. Medical Libraries
17. Vocational Rehabilitation
18. Anti-Poverty Program
19. Arts and Humanities Foundation
20. Aid to Appalachia
21. Highway Beauty
22. Clean Air
23. Water Pollution Control
24. High Speed Transit
25. Manpower Training
26. Child Health
27. Community Health Services
28. Water Resources Council
29. Water Desalting
30. Juvenile Delinquency Control
31. Arms Control
32. Affirmative Action
1966
1. Child Nutrition
2. Department of Transportation
3. Truth in Packaging
4. Model Cities
5. Rent Supplements
6. Teachers Corps
7. Asian Development Bank
8. Clean Rivers
9. Food for Freedom
10. Child Safety
11. Narcotics Rehabilitation
12. Traffic Safety
13. Highway Safety
14. Mine Safety
15. International Education
16. Bail Reform
17. Auto Safety
18. Tire Safety
19. New GI Bill
20. Minimum Wage Increase
21. Urban Mass Transit
22. Civil Procedure Reform
23. Fish-Wildlife Preservation
24. Water for Peace
25. Anti-Inflation Program
26. Scientific Knowledge Exchange
27. Protection for Savings
28. Freedom of Information
29. Hirshhorn Museum
1967
1. Education Professions
2. Education Act
3. Air Pollution Control
4. Partnership for Health
5. Social Security Increases
6. Age Discrimination
7. Wholesome Meat
8. Flammable Fabrics
9. Urban Research
10. Public Broadcasting
11. Outer Space Treaty
12. Modern D.C. Government
13. Federal Judicial Center
14. Deaf-Blind Center
15. College Work Study
16. Summer Youth Programs
17. Food Stamps
18. Urban Fellowships
19. Safety at Sea Treaty
20. Narcotics Treaty
21. Anti-Racketeering
22. Product Safety Commission
23. Inter-American Bank
1968
1. Fair Housing
2. Indian Bill of Rights
3. Safe Streets
4. Wholesome Poultry
5. Commodity Exchange Rules
6. School Breakfasts
7. Truth-in-Lending
8. Aircraft Noise Abatement
9. New Narcotics Bureau
10. Gas Pipeline Safety
11. Fire Safety
12. Sea Grant Colleges
13. Tax Surcharge
14. Housing Act
15. International Monetary Reform
16. Fair Federal Juries
17. Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
18. Guaranteed Student Loans
19. Health Manpower
20. Gun Controls
21. Aid-to-Handicapped Children
22. Heart, Cancer and Stroke Programs
23. Hazardous Radiation Protection
24. Scenic Rivers
25. Scenic Trails
26. National Water Commission
27. Vocational Education
28. Dangerous Drug Control
29. Military Justice Code
30. Tax Surcharge
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P. J. O’Rourke
When Trump runs for office in two years we’ll ask him to deal with the deficit, he’ll promise to work on it - and soon the problem will be solved.
That’s the advantage of choosing a man of action over a man of cheap words.
It’s human nature. We defer the pain of right decisions until we are right up against the wall of death.
The welfare debt must be cut. If you don’t work you don’t eat...at least with tax payers money. All this talk about everyone having rights without being
willing to provide for yourself is not right.