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This Graph Says it All: “Spending is the Problem”

sjk Wrote: Dec 13, 2012 7:32 PM
Where are the mil-spend cuts? We just cant fight wars forever. And that is a fact. We're gonna balance the budget on the backs of the working poor, while we spend a million dollars a year to keep soldiers overseas, neglect our crumbling infrastructure while we blow up other countries? Ike was right.
MudontheTires Wrote: Dec 13, 2012 9:17 PM
"Where are the mil-spend cuts?"

Hey prog, Defense is Constitutionally mandated, unlike your precious Welfare State. And Defense comprises about 20% of the Federal Budget, wereas the Welfare State comprises about 63% of the Federal Budget.

Come back when you know what your talking about, chump.
psydoc Wrote: Dec 13, 2012 7:37 PM
The military spending cuts are already law.

How have we ever balanced the budget on the backs of the working poor? Give an accurate, truthful example.

Anyone who believes that the president’s proposed tax hikes on “the rich” will save our country from insolvency is grossly mistaken, and should begin to educate themselves by examining the graph below. Whoa:

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This isn’t the least bit surprising, of course. We’ve seen this coming for a very long time. Barring major cuts to entitlement spending the country will go bankrupt. It’s not a possibility -- it’s an absolute certainty. Which is why I find all the “negotiations” surrounding raising taxes on...

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