[SkyPilot]

Good heavens.

Did you see that video about the ETIC scam? Did you watch it? Do you understand what Clinton and the Democrats did?

Moreover, a "sense of scale" with entitlements is a laughable concept.

There are over 60 "welfare" programs including the Food Stamp program. Democrats have divided them into little pieces.

Take a re-look at this chart, and look that the "Unemployment Insurance and Other Entitlements" block. Eighty Billion here, eighty billion there, and soon you are talking serious money.

The problem with entitlements is several fold:

- they cause people to become dependent, slothful, and ungrateful

- they never end

- they always grow

- they create a political class the Democrats exploit

- they destroy self esteem and God given dignity

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

There has been exactly ONE welfare reform bill passed by Congress and signed by a President. Clinton reluctantly signed a welfare reform bill that slightly modified ONE program (AFDP). Guess what? Obama overturned that small reform in his first week. The word was his mother-in-law screamed about it.

The other 60+ programs were never touched, and won't be touched.

finally, let's talk about the whole premise of the program: feeding the hungry. People in the country are not starving - especially the poor! We are the only nation in the history of humanity to have a majority obese poor population. And it isn't "nutrition education" for the answer either. That is HUD spin. These people do not have any self control or discipline. We are literally feeding that.

I agree with you: get rid of HUD, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, the TSA, and all these other hated Federal agencies.

We also need to seriously reform Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Not "ten years from now." No kick the can down the road. Now.

[muawiyah]

A number of programs that you have a problem with are FINANCED with separate taxes. Workman's Compensation ~ as much a welfare scam as any ~ is paid for with a tax on employers. Social Security has collected far more FDIC than it has paid out in benefits, and even Medicare has collected more than it's paid.

Unemployment Compensation is limited in duration and is paid by states out of a fund created by taxes collected on employers.

Federal highway building programs are paid for out of gasoline taxes ~ and to tell you I find it outrageous that we encourage Socialist meddling with this gas tax operation. Those roads should be built by private companies. You want something wasteful and prone to making people slothful that's gotta' be a 6 lane super highway ~