ET'rs Budget Committee

[seneca_roman]

Quote from CaptainObvious:

Depends how you define benefit. SSN is not a benefit as we are taxed to pay for it, and our employers pay into it which is lost wages for the employee. Same with unemployment. Employers are taxed to pay for it and that money is lost wages for the employee. So-called "Veterans benefits" are definitively not benefits. Those of us that are veterans paid in spades for any education or health-care services provided to veterans. Anything that is taxed cannot be considered a benefit.
A benefit would go to someone like Trump. A guy pretending to be a corporation who continually runs his business into the ground, and then get's to "reorganize" to do it all over again. Now that's a benefit!

I think your comment reinforced the point of the article. You and I don't want to give up what we paid for. The article's point is that most of the Govt. spending is sending checks and not gettting something in return; ie, SSN.

Seneca

 

[Covertibility]

Quote from Ricter:

No shit? Like the, "there's a pedophile among the OWS people" threads.

Anyway, back on topic, enter the "Republican Keynesians":

" It took months of fighting — the threat of a government shutdown, the graver threat of a default on the national debt, and now a new threat of major, automatic cuts to Medicare and defense programs — but Congress’ deficit obsession has finally exposed the rarest of all species: Republican Keynesians.

With just a under a month until the deficit Super Committee must recommend policies that cut the 10 year deficit by $1.2 trillion, members of the Republican party — the same party that’s been on the war path for deep spending cuts, and that decries President Obama’s “failed stimulus” — are making uncharacteristic arguments against slashing spending. Trim too much, too quickly, they warn, and people will lose their jobs!
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“What’s more, cutting our military—either by eliminating programs or laying off soldiers—brings grave economic costs,” wrote Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week. “f the super committee fails to reach an agreement, its automatic cuts would kill upwards of 800,000 active-duty, civilian and industrial American jobs. This would inflate our unemployment rate by a full percentage point, close shipyards and assembly lines, and damage the industrial base that our warfighters need to stay fully supplied and equipped.”

What?!?!? Cutting spending in the rest of the economy won't mean job loss but cutting spending on the military will!?!?!?

Need to stay fully supplied and equipped for what???

Long live the Party of Fear and Ignorance!

 

[CaptainObvious]

Quote from seneca_roman:

I think your comment reinforced the point of the article. You and I don't want to give up what we paid for. The article's point is that most of the Govt. spending is sending checks and not gettting something in return; ie, SSN.

Seneca

You're damn right we don't want to give up what we paid for. Congress embezzled the money. Someone wants to cut my SSN they can first hold congress criminally liable and prosecute them for their crimes. Then we can talk about personal sacrifice on the part of the individual tax payer. The rapist must be punished first, and then we can talk about who we should trust, where we should walk, and how short our skirt should be.