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copperline
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Paucity of any good economic news
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7/27/2011 1:07:58 AM
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Yep, Barney... lots of people, more than you know, have taken care of Grandma by signing her up for Medicaid when she needed a nursinghome.... but my point was that "entitlement programs" is a catch phrase for those programs for low income people, and the rhetoric fails to mention that Govt expenses on public welfare goes far beyond food stamps and aid to dependent children. We pay substantial amounts so the Govt can oversee and protect what's in the public interest. Like benefits to current & retired military, to research & education, operation of all sorts of policies & resources that are very much in the general public interest.....National Parks, NASA, the FAA, Coast Guard,the CDC.... the list is very long. It IS the job of the govt to provide those things because we WANTED each one of them. When you demand tax cuts for the purpose of reducing govt expenditures, something has to give .... and it won't be just falling on the heads of those low income bums everyone loves to denigrate.
Things begin to change when it's your ox that is getting gored. Now this gridlock around the budget could cause the stock market & national economy to take a huge hit creating a much more difficult future. If that happens, there could be LOTS more of people looking for work, with no health insurance, and probably pretty pissed off that their elected officials saw the end coming and just couldn't overcome their campaign slogans long enough to do anything about it.
And Barn.... leave the attempts to insult me to yourself. Not interested in hearing them. This forum needs some input from somewhere other than the right wing. Isn't that what free speech is all about?
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