We have over a trillion dollars per year going to people who
are too lazy to get off their backside and leave welfare.
Granted some of them can’t, but we just don’t give a darn.
All they talk about is Medicare and Social Security needing
to be cut.
I understand your point, but I think there are other places
to do some cutting.
I want money spent here at home too, but the good old boys
keep asking for $20 billion here, and $50 billion there,
for their pet projects. They could be spending quite a bit
on necessities if they wanted to.
Exactly. Welfare is a destructive force that damages families generation after generation. Gradually all that can work should work and the next generation of kids should be given the tools to succeed in the workplace and the expectation that they can & should succeed..
Clear priorities need to be established in spending.
Congress wastes extraordinary sums on graft and to deliver pork.
The behavior of NIH, National Endowment for the Arts, and FDA, all with projects and subsidies that are not focused on valid American interests suggests that those agencies should be completely gutted and revised on smaller and tightly focused areas.
The Department of Education, of Energy and many other bureaucratic warehouses should be eliminated or reduced to a skeleton of the present staff and a fraction of present purview.
Similarly the IRS, DOJ, CIA need to be reined in and defunded. Maybe this is the time to switch to a VAT and eliminate the IRS. Since VAT hits the poor hardest I would foresee areas that would be exempt up to a certain level so that inexpensive clothing and basic food would be untaxed. What a wonderful world it would be without the IRS and how much we would save as a Nation on tax preparation time and costs as well as IRS salaries.