Meet Rand Paul

[icenine]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...l#.Uy6PS_ldU8c


excellent article

[bobabode]

Screw that smarmy little weasel.

[mpholland]

I am pretty sure the whole country realizes the only way to fiscal sanity is going to be to tax the money. Problem is those with the money won't tax themselves.

[Ike Bana]

Meet Rand Paul - No thanks, I'm good.

[MikeG22]

Is that possibly true, that foreign aid accounts for less than 1% of the federal budget?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by MikeG22

Is that possibly true, that foreign aid accounts for less than 1% of the federal budget?

Yup! It's really always been like that. Frankly, I think it's inexcusable that the richest and most powerful nation on earth spends so little to alleviate suffering in the world and then spends more than everyone else in the world fighting the fires that suffering ignites. It's cruel, immoral and just plain stupid.

John

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Yup! It's really always been like that. Frankly, I think it's inexcusable that the richest and most powerful nation on earth spends so little to alleviate suffering in the world and then spends more than everyone else in the world fighting the fires that suffering ignites. It's cruel, immoral and just plain stupid.

John

Exactly. Remember when the Shrub was stiffing the U.N. on our dues ala 'starving the beast'? I wonder if Obama has paid us up?

[4-2-7]

Originally Posted by MikeG22

Is that possibly true, that foreign aid accounts for less than 1% of the federal budget?

Now ask what all the entitlements cost.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Now ask what all the entitlements cost.

Entitlements are what the federal budget should be about. Health care, social security benefits, all the health and human services programs and infrastructure, highways and bridges, are where our tax dollars should be going.

I think it's all well and good that we should be concerned with the suffering in the world. And we should do something about it...after we do something about the suffering, and general safety here. Not that conservatives care much about the poor and middle class...who are paying the highest percentage of their income of any of us, and who are providing all the cannon fodder for our rich man's wars.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Entitlements are what the federal budget should be about. Health care, social security benefits, all the health and human services programs and infrastructure, highways and bridges, are where our tax dollars should be going.

I think it's all well and good that we should be concerned with the suffering in the world. And we should do something about it...after we do something about the suffering, and general safety here.

Exactly

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti...ntitlementFull Definition of ENTITLEMENT. 1. a: the state or condition of being entitled: right. b: a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract

Of course if they want to renege on a contract, but the funny part was when I first came down here they did not ask if I wanted them to deduct FICA from my salary. Oddly enough Mirriam Webster is an American dictionary but I guess Republicans cannot read very well, they probably think black is white.