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re: 56% of GOP voters want govt to pay more in monthly SS benefits/medicare
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:32 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:32 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
You are right. In all of these bills passed by Congress, there is very little frivolous spending and pet projects in them. There is absolutely no way to cut spending anywhere else.
This post was edited on 5/15/24 at 1:33 pm
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Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:37 pm to Revelator
Hmmm...so people want a fair share of what they paid in to their entire lives, but receive much less than if they had just invested all that money in the stock market all those years?
Posted on 5/15/24 at 2:24 pm to Revelator
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You are right. In all of these bills passed by Congress, there is very little frivolous spending and pet projects in them. There is absolutely no way to cut spending anywhere else.
SS/Medicare is 50% of the budget.
National Defense is 13% and it's the single biggest line item after SS/Medicare.
You're not going to make any significant difference without at least cutting SS/Medicare in half. And doing that still won't pay down the debt, it's only enough to stop running the huge deficits.
You populists have got to accept that you can't have SS/Medicare AND a smaller government. One of those two wishes on the wish list has got to go.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 6:09 pm to Revelator
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You are right. In all of these bills passed by Congress, there is very little frivolous spending and pet projects in them. There is absolutely no way to cut spending anywhere else.
I'm not saying we shouldn't slash this type of spending but it's a drop in the bucket compared to entitlement spending
It's like saving 20 dollars a month on car insurance after you buy a 250K car
Posted on 5/17/24 at 12:00 pm to Revelator
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You are right. In all of these bills passed by Congress, there is very little frivolous spending and pet projects in them. There is absolutely no way to cut spending anywhere else.
Discretionary spending is less than one-third of the federal budget. Mandatory spending makes up the large bulk of it.
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