Wry Catcher
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- #101
Why would we cut social security, medicare and medicade which provide a needed and necessary service to our nations people yet continue to fund defense, which seems more about turning a profit than providing real defense to our nation? Real Christians would such abhor a policy, denying the aged and/or infirm life supporting services and continuing to produce weapons designed to kill.
It might be understandable if the money spent on new, larger and more leathal means of killing were spent instead to protect our borders, our chemical plants, our water supply, our ports, our people.
Why haven't the members of Congress voted first to cut their salary and benefits? Isn't that a form of leadership? Why haven't supporters of war offered to pay for war (it's far easier to put a ribbon on ones bumber I suppose).
This entire debate is crap; it is a sad commentary on a nation which has lost its soul; avarice is a deady sin and seems to be the guiding force of the New Right.
I don't know if you think I want to cut services to the poor or elderly or not, but if you do, you would be wrong. There are plenty of other areas to cut including waste in the social services areas. Lots of waste throughout our government.
I've got no problem cutting the defense budget either, as long as you are not talking about cutting soldiers pay and expecting them to put their lives on the line in Iraq for minimum wage! Again, there are plenty of areas throughout our government to cut.
But, no one in Washington wants to stand up and say, we need to cut and we need to cut now. The time for playing games is over.
You are right, it is a sad commentary on our nation, but the right is no less guilty than the left.
Immie
No. You're wrong. Both parties may be complicite but the right is going after the poor, the aged, the infirm. Notice the issue of debt is new, and was rarely discussed and never with the ferver of the far right (tea baggers) during the Iraq fiasco, when we spent ten billion dollars a month on a war of choice. A war of choice which we continue to pay for today and will continue until the last brave American dies of the wounds s/he received in this stupid war.
Notice the issue of corporate welfare is never debated and often dismissed; the oil cartel continues to suck dollars from our treasury even as they report quarterly profits in the billions.
I belive your heart is in the right place Immie, unlike the callous conservatives and RW assholes who are willing to sacrifice the lives of others but not one cent of their own.