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Originally posted by Seahawk
The interesting point to be made here is that there is no such thing as a zero sum analysis where the federal budget is concerned. Discretionary spending is, including defences spending, less that 8% of the total budget! The rest is law: Social security, Medicare, etc. In addition, each of those spending lines is indexed for inflation, often well above the inflation rate.
Congress passes laws...it is the entire budgetary mechanism that has become an absolute sham, and knows no political boundaries.
No one wants to take on Social Security and Medicare, which is akin to policical suicide. And they all have their snout in the trough.
It is not just Bush, folks, or the Republicans.
I think this whole country needs an f'ing civics class.
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No democrat is claiming it's just Bush or the republicans.
However, it's the republicans who claim it's just the democrats. "spending democrats." "fiscally conservative republicans". These buzzwords are drilled in on a daily basis. You need to talk to the republicans about this, not the democrats.