Posted on 07/22/2011 6:34:42 AM PDT by i88schwartz
"A lot of the spending cuts that we're making should be around areas like defense spending as opposed to food stamps," President Obama told in an interview with NPR.
"What is true is that given the rising number of seniors and given the huge escalation in health care costs, that if we don’t structure those programs so that they are sustainable, then it’s going to be hard for the next generation to enjoy those same kinds of benefits. And so we are going to have to make some modest changes that retain the integrity of the program, but make sure that they’re there for years to come. And that’s not even just a deficit problem, that’s a step that even if we were all Democrats up here on Capitol Hill, we’d have to start making to make sure the integrity of those programs are preserved," Obama also said in the interview.
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That is not even a little bit surprising. After all, it WAS Barack Obama saying it, and defense spending is specifically authorized by the Constitution; food stamps are not.
“It’s not healthy and they are even able to get money back to buy cigarettes and booze!! Yeah, we can’t cut that, but defense of our country? “
You don’t understand the communist mindset. Shared misery is not misery. If they can manage to get us all on food stamps and dependent on the government, no matter how crappy things are, it will be uniformly crappy. Well, except for party officials, of course.
As for booze and cigarettes... it pacifies the masses.
No, we are in decline because we are being consumed by the welfare state. We can no longer afford guns and butter. The entitlement programs are bankrupting us.
What country was it... Czechoslovakia?
They ended up being communist not through a hostile violent takeover, but by accepting the incremental compromises that were presented as the only alternative to a hostile violent takeover.
They used to teach that in political science and economics classes: guns or butter. It was one of the few simulations that encouraged interesting debate.
But we tried guns AND butter (using debt to pay for the rest). So did Europe.
I was talking to a libinlaw about the need to prepare for hyperinflation and the privation that would result.
Her response was that “we’d all be in the same boat” if that happens.
I failed to see how that was supposed to be an alleviating condition.
Europe went “all butter” because the USA had the guns and would protect them.
The US has regularly been setting monthly records for number of food stamp recipients during the Baraqqi regime.
Surely this will make for some good campaign commercials in 012.
He can't because he would have to start in the White House and the Congress before he ever got to the programs that need to be corrected.
setting records for food stamp recipients would be a “good thing” in the eyes of some.
Of course, pointing out that fact about 0bama would be “racist”.
Obama is just playing games with both sides. Few presidents have given the Pentagon more of what they want than he has. Obama, like Bush, believes the purpose of the military is the police the world, not actually defend us.
• Currently, Medicare claims about 11 percent of federal nonentitlement tax dollars.
• By 2020, Medicare deficits will claim one in every five federal tax dollars that are not already dedicated to Medicare and Social Security.
• This means that in just 9 years the federal government will have to stop doing one in every five things it does today if taxes are to remain at their current level and projected Medicare benefits are paid on behalf of the disabled and the elderly.
• By 2030, the deficits in Medicare will claim one in every three general revenue dollars; by 2050, they will claim one in every two.
“I failed to see how that was supposed to be an alleviating condition.”
Yep, not surprising. To a liberal, it’s more important to make sure things are equal than to make sure things are good for yourself.
How fat to you need to be to qualify for food stamps?
Let’s see....1.4 million military personnel against 44.2 million food stamp recipients. Guess Barry’s just doing the math.
Exactly. And the politicians always choose butter. Europe had the luxury of the US security umbrella. We won’t have that luxury.
I’d put it differently: we cannot no longer afford the welfare AND warfare (world policing) state. Butter AND guns are bankrupting us. Let’s cut both. Conservatives only undermine their cause when they make one of the two a sacred cow.
My wife works at a grocery store and I hear these same stories! It's just despicable what these people buy with food stamps...what they are ALLOWED to buy, with our tax dollars! Chips, candy, steak, you name it!
And the attitude of entitlement is absolutely disgusting too. You would not believe some of the comments she hears from these POS....
Every single @#$%^&* cent the gubmint gives away, they had to take from someone who actually worked for it....and thats what disgusts me the most.
And the real kick in the nuts is that, if only people who needed and deserve this help would get it, 95% of the problems with the system wouldn't even exist.
Food Stamp Facts SSA Publication No. 05-10101...Who can get food stamps?
It's a pretty long list.
The Food-Stamp Crime Wave
The number of food-stamp recipients has soared to 44 million from 26 million in 2007. Not surprisingly, fraud and abuse are rampant..Millionaires are now legally entitled to collect food stamps as long as they have little or no monthly income. Thirty-five states have abolished asset tests for most food-stamp recipients. These and similar “paperwork reduction” reforms advocated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are turning the food-stamp program into a magnet for abuses and absurdities.
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From the USDA website : “Thirty-five states have abolished asset test”
sounds like you can have a home and lot, but not more than $2,000 (or $3,000) in a bank account.
“Households may have $2,000 in countable resources, such as a bank account, or $3000 in countable resources if at least one person is age 60 or older, or is disabled. However, certain resources are NOT counted, such as a home and lot..”
So just go spend down your bank account and buy some 22” spinner rims for your Escalade, and you’ll be fine.
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