Quote Originally Posted by -EnVus- View Post
Times can be hard these days i know all to well and even if its just assistance for 2-4 weeks any help is appreciated and needed. Yes it has been said many times before there are many who use and just abuse the system but also many use it the right way. Guess the biggest peeve im my mind is we are forcing our selves into dept with the War department and funding.
Things are rough, times are hard, but it's ok I've got my EBT card. Damn that, being poor is a choice that is determined by your choices in life.

As far as gov't spending issues, this is from Jan. 2011:



Link here.

To give a better sense of just how much government would have to cut back, consider this: In 2010, Uncle Sam took in $2.162 trillion in federal revenue -- and 8% of that is $173 billion.

Here's a sampling of what that $173 billion could have paid for last year:

The Department of Labor ($173 billion) OR ...

One-fourth of defense spending ($667 billion) OR ...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (roughly $170 billion) OR ...

Most but not all of the interest owed on the country's debt ($228 billion) OR ...

The Departments of Transportation ($78 billion), Justice ($30 billion) and Housing and Urban Development ($60 billion); plus the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration ($5 billion) OR ...

The Departments of Agriculture ($129 billion), Energy ($31 billion) and Commerce ($13 billion) OR ...

The Departments of Education ($93 billion) and Homeland Security ($44 billion), plus NASA ($19 billion), the EPA ($11 billion) and the parks, fish and wild life services ($6 billion).
I have no problem with cutting defense spending, it needs to be done and there are a ton of ways to do it without compromising our nat'l security. No bid contracts, weapons and programs that the Pentagon doesn't even want being funded anyway. There's a ton of waste in defense spending, which is why I say it's become a welfare/jobs program in and of itself in many ways. But the entitlement crap needs cutting just as bad, if not worse.