Do You Think Obama is a Socialist... Do You Care?

[Kasz216]

akuma587 said:

Kasz216 said:

ph4nt said:
Anybody who cuts the defense budget is an enemy of mine.

I also hate it when my tax dollars are going to the underachievers of society, the anchors of the United States.

Politics has made "the strongest survive" obsolete, and now the strong are wasting their time supporting the weak.

A lot could be cut in the defense budget.  It's just the stuff people never talk about.

 

Like the new Presidential choppers.... that the president doesn't want.  The new airplane engines  Piterus doesn't want.

 

Etc.  People keep getting shit they don't even want because Senators are looking for pork barrel jobs for their states.

 

I once saw  C-span where a senator tried to convince an unbudging VA director that he needed more money for the VA. 

Everyone is a fiscal conservative until they actually have to give up something.  Hell, the Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R), has gotten a crazy amount of pork barrel spending for his state.  This is why I find very few people out there to be credible when they say they are fiscally conservative.  That and when they ignore the fact that tax cuts have lead to large deficits just like spending.  George W. Bush was in the red every year he was in office even when the economy was doing well.  Same for Reagan.

George Bush Sr. was the only recent Republican President one who I can legitimately call a fiscal conservative.  And his party hated him for it cause he raised taxes.  Many people who claim to be fiscally conservative are more anti-tax than pro-fiscal responsibility.  Where was all the fiscal restraint when Republicans were in office?  I mean at least the Democrats are honest about what they are doing.

I agree about that mostly.  Although there are fiscally conservative republicans and democrats out there.  They just get demonized by the press and their parties.  For example all the shit the Blue Dog Democrats got during this healthcare bill because there are no price controls, it's ridiculiously expensive, and the estimates of it's expense are well... underestimated even with the ridiculious numbers.

Or the Republicans who've called for pullout and tried to pass balanced budget ammendments.