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   narrowminded said, 3 months ago

   Progressives love making promises future generations will have to keep. They buy votes with our grandchildrens taxes. Nice gig, if you can get it.
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   ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

   @narrowminded

   Yes, because corporations don’t get billions in subsidies from government! Because billions and trillions haven’t been spent on wars that never end, because god forbid taxes be raised on those on who can afford to pay! I am totally with this cartoon, end the entitlements! Which is not social security, medicare, infrastructure spending.
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   Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

   @Mr. King

   And this is where you show your complete ignorance of the actual problem.
   
   Entitlements? OK we pay into a fund for social security and medicare. It is supposed to be collected and spent on a retirement “supplement” for those age 65 (unless you were born after year “X” and then the age increases incrementally) and medical care for those age 65 and older for which each participant should purchase a supplemental policy to cover what medicare does not. Then we added medicaid for disabilities, and we pay minor children, the disabled and widows.
   
   The government comes along and “borrows” that cash “trust” fund and replaces it with “treasury bonds” (an IOU and nothing else).
   
   So it is THAT borrowing that forces social security and medicare to be placed on the budget since in order to pay the “entitlement” of those that “paid into” the fund and had their “trust fund” depleted to run other government programs the government must allocate funds from the general revenue. Got it?
   
   And no I do NOT care which party did it first or last.
   
   MEANWHILE, the government has increased the roles of those on food stamps, unemployment and welfare which are NOT entitlements but rather charity since those benefiting from the government largess have paid not one dime into any fund in support of those programs.
   
   See? You have your definitions wrong.
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   Rickapolis said, 3 months ago

   You notice his finger isn’t even stopping the discretionary spending.
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   Zuhlamon said, 3 months ago

   It’s called an “entitlement” for good reason – we worked all our lives for it on a contract of good faith. And after the Republicans wrecked the economy from their decade of unfinanced adventures, they want to wreck SS and Medicare? No freaken way!
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 3 months ago

   Not pictured: The twenty-foot-wide gaping hole in the dyke labeled “military spending”.
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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   Most “entitlements” are indeed covered by supplemental taxes. “Defense entitlements” , like to GE, not only don’t call for taxes, they give refunds on taxes, NEVER PAID! Not a bad “gig”. “Black box” defense spending btw, isn’t figured as “discretionary”, because it’s not in the "budget’.
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   Gore Bane said, 3 months ago

   @Mr. King

   The rest of the entitlement spending is exactly where the danger lies to earned accounts like Social Security. Liberals, wake up and see the threat to your own property!
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   ConserveGov said, 3 months ago

   The Spendocrats would lose their position as mommy and daddy to their feeble followers if they didn’t have that money to dole out.
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    Uncle Joe said, 3 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    The “Means Tested Welfare Spending” report is misleading. TANF, which is the actual welfare program costs about $16 billion a year. Most of what the GOP labels “welfare” is Medicaid, especially CHIP programs & Earned Income Credits for (aka. tax refunds for for lower income people with kids).
    
    The main goal of the report was to fend off any attempts to cut military spending.
    
    
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    Harry Neuman said, 3 months ago

    @ConserveGov

    Not an entitlement

    Social Security is a government-run investment fund into which American workers employed by self, or others, are mandated by law to deposit 7% to 15% of every paycheck earned during the whole of our working years. This investment plan pays no interest or dividends, but instead promises that when we age out of the workforce and need to begin withdrawing from our investment program, it will be there!The correct descriptive title for this plan would be Social Security Investment Plan. It is offensive to listen to our president and members of Congress refer to this plan as an “entitlement program.” Entitlement implies “not earned, just given.”If you want to talk entitlement programs, let’s consider the bloated parade of perks that members of Congress are entitled to both during and after their employment ends. Now that is my idea of an entitlement program, one I would enthusiastically put on the table to eviscerate in search of areas where significant and permanent cuts may be made.
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    Uncle Joe said, 3 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Another common conservative lie- unemployment compensation is not charity. You have to have worked & paid unemployment insurance taxes in order to collect.
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    Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

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    ewww… telling a poster to ‘shut up’. How do you justify that?
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    TJDestry said, 3 months ago

    Ken balances his home budget not just by turning down the thermostat, cutting back on eating out and canceling his vacation, but also by not paying his mortgage, insurance and car payments.
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    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @Uncle Joe

    Really, and when did YOU last pay an unemployment “tax”? That burden is upon the employer and is NOT counted as part of your compensation package but as part of the costs of operation of the business.
    
    And dude, you have never had to collect have you. Having worked is no guarantee that you will collect.
    
    Where you fired? why? up “for cause”. No unemployment
    
    Were you part time? and your hours were cut so you are now looking for another job while still technically employed by the first guy but not getting any hours? Nope, no unemployment for you.
    
    Did you just get fed up with the BS and walked out the door? Nope no unemployment for you.
    
    Ah yes. you were laid off. NOW you get that 250 bucks a week.
    
    Yep. Charity.
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