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What Handouts To Cut

Alan from NJ Wrote: Aug 12, 2010 12:09 AM

Its painful and unwanted demise seems necessary. I just do not believe you cut dependent people off, cold. But wean them off the dependency, with only part of the pain a total removal would bring. That is painful enough, but not revolutionary. I have met some truly responsible people, who have worked their whole lives, and are full of virtue, that simply do not need the checks they get. I do not expect them to send the checks back, but the system seems especially unfair to them. It has turned out to be an evil, divisive thing that encourages dependency, corruption and inequity.

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What Handouts To Cut

Because of failure to heed the limitations of the U.S. Constitution, which has produced runaway federal spending, our nation sits on the precipice of disaster. Former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Erskine Bowles, White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission, in a Washington Post article "Obama's Debt Commission Warns of Fiscal 'Cancer'" (July 12, 2010) said that "(A)t present, federal revenue is fully consumed by three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The rest of the federal government, including fighting two wars, homeland security, education, art, culture, you name it,...

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