Entitlements must be cut drastically. Here's why...

[Big Fitz]

Most everyone is being so partisan on this board it's easy to see how Congress gets nowhere.

Let's admit it, both sides are right and wrong. Entitlements have to be cut so they serve the truly disabled and aged. The rest should have the two year warning.

The rich do get tax breaks and subsidies because they have more accountants to find the loopholes and subsidies. If we are going to cut entitlements, the entitlements to the rich should go, too. When there are tax cheats, don't look the other way! Garnish their money, take it out of their accounts and put them in jail. Look out Sharpton!

Everyone should have the two year warning, things are gonna change!

Above all, hold our congresspeople accountable! They should have to follow every law that is imposed on the citizens. Audit their taxes every two years.

One time I wouldn't mind the government to hire more people, more judges and make more prisons is when they are going to find the real entitlement cheats and put them away. Rich and poor...they are a dredge on our society.

Never forget, Gridlock keeps well intentioned do-gooders from screwing up your life with their insane plans to meddle with you.

 

[lizzie]

My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform

I posted the above article containing rampant abuse of entitlement programs as an illustration of a fundamental difference in perception between liberals and conservatives when it comes to entitlement programs. What both sides agree on is that there isn't any thing wrong and government indeed should help those that truly can't help themselves or need a little TEMPORARY assistance. The difference between liberals and conservatives is of the people on welfare, how many of the aformentioned are there? Is it a majority of welfare system (programs like food stamps, WIC, unemployment insurance, etc.) collectors that truly can't do better in life or is it mainly moochers who are conciously incorrectly prioritizing? The fact is libs, it's the later as this case study shows. Our welfare rolls across the nation are filled predominantly with people who can, but will not help themselves. The system enables that behavior, it does not prevent it. All of our entitlement programs need to be cut drastically if we really want to prevent poverty in America as well as start cutting our debt.

Bern?

How many Americans are on WELFARE, do you really even know?

Around 45% of Americans are currently receiving some form of government subsidy to live. Granted, they aren't all on "welfare", as many of them are on social security and disability, but those two programs should classify as welfare since benefits paid in by the recipient are generally used up within 2-5 years, then the rest of the tab is on the taxpayer.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Entitlements must be cut drastically. Here's why...

Because more "conservatives" need to experience Life, withOUT them????

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February 11, 2012​

"Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.

He says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending. In 2010, he printed T-shirts for the Tea Party campaign of a neighbor, Chip Cravaack, who ousted this region’s long-serving Democratic congressman.

Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice.

There is little poverty here in Chisago County, northeast of Minneapolis, where cheap housing for commuters is gradually replacing farmland. But Mr. Gulbranson and many other residents who describe themselves as self-sufficient members of the American middle class and as opponents of government largess are drawing more deeply on that government with each passing year."

"Guerrilla" PIGS At The Trough​