"nd surely, increasing taxes and expanding the number of people on the dole and social programs would do wonders for making the Federal budget smaller right?"
I love you for giving me this present.
< sarcasm > I have seen the light! You are totally right, it is all those slackers on the Dole that is emptying the US coffers!
Let's look at the entire budgets of those evil liberal departments of the Executive, shall we (2008)?
$67.650 Billion - Department of Health and Human Services $55.995 Billion - Department of Education $35.201 Billion - Department of Housing and Human Development $10.610 Billion - Department of the Interior $7.200 Billion - Environmental Protection Agency ----------------- $176.656 Billion for Liberal Slackers and Losers
Huh.
Interestingly, it is less thatn the Interest we are paying on our National Debt that all of your lovely cut-taxes-deficit spending is granting us. Current interest will cost us $281 Billion this year.
Hell, one mid-year emergency spending bill for the troops could completely pay for all this liberal big-government poppycock.
How about we look at those Conservative Small Government activities that you are soooooo fond of, shall we?
$481.406 Billion - Department of Defense $145.200 Billion - Additional for the War on Terra $34.998 Billion - Department of State $39.418 Billion - For the underfunded Department of Veteran Affairs $.340 Billion - Office of the President $34.288 Billion - For that new, Republican small-government innovation that is rocking the world with its effectiveness and competence, the Department of Homeland Security ------------------- $735.650 Billion* - The cost of world Jingoism**
* Not including the $150 or so Billion dollars more we will get hit with by the middle of the year (like we have every year) to Support the Troops (tm).
** I am not including War on Terra efforts coming from the Department of Justice ($20.181 Billion)
Or, are you proposing that we get rid of those Social Security entitlements that were paid into by the men that fought real wars? You've spent a lot of time standing on their shoulders comparing our current misadventures to World War II, are you going to fuck them over now because social security has been dishonestly raided instead of being the separate fund as it was always promised?
If so, you will save $608 Billion.
Go ahead and say that all those old people are the problem. I want to see you say that.
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Date: 2008-02-28 11:13 pm (UTC)I love you for giving me this present.
< sarcasm >
I have seen the light! You are totally right, it is all those slackers on the Dole that is emptying the US coffers!
Let's look at the entire budgets of those evil liberal departments of the Executive, shall we (2008)?
$67.650 Billion - Department of Health and Human Services
$55.995 Billion - Department of Education
$35.201 Billion - Department of Housing and Human Development
$10.610 Billion - Department of the Interior
$7.200 Billion - Environmental Protection Agency
-----------------
$176.656 Billion for Liberal Slackers and Losers
Huh.
Interestingly, it is less thatn the Interest we are paying on our National Debt that all of your lovely cut-taxes-deficit spending is granting us. Current interest will cost us $281 Billion this year.
Hell, one mid-year emergency spending bill for the troops could completely pay for all this liberal big-government poppycock.
How about we look at those Conservative Small Government activities that you are soooooo fond of, shall we?
$481.406 Billion - Department of Defense
$145.200 Billion - Additional for the War on Terra
$34.998 Billion - Department of State
$39.418 Billion - For the underfunded Department of Veteran Affairs
$.340 Billion - Office of the President
$34.288 Billion - For that new, Republican small-government innovation that is rocking the world with its effectiveness and competence, the Department of Homeland Security
-------------------
$735.650 Billion* - The cost of world Jingoism**
* Not including the $150 or so Billion dollars more we will get hit with by the middle of the year (like we have every year) to Support the Troops (tm).
** I am not including War on Terra efforts coming from the Department of Justice ($20.181 Billion)
Or, are you proposing that we get rid of those Social Security entitlements that were paid into by the men that fought real wars? You've spent a lot of time standing on their shoulders comparing our current misadventures to World War II, are you going to fuck them over now because social security has been dishonestly raided instead of being the separate fund as it was always promised?
If so, you will save $608 Billion.
Go ahead and say that all those old people are the problem. I want to see you say that.