Ann Coulter says welfare policies responsible for looting....

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badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

Not all of us disbelieve in efficiency, you know. I'd rather the system were sustainable, and i'm in the belief that our increased life expectancies mean we should have an increased working life expectancy

Sustainability is the name of the game for all social programs

Well, yeah. I'm obviously painting with broad strokes here, but it's just always baffled me that this isn't a huge issue for the left. It clearly should be, both for strategic reasons as well as ideological ones. These are the programs for which the left exists, and they are being horribly mismanaged. While that should outrage every tax-paying citizen, it should really burn liberals' asses. Instead they have allowed the government waste issue to be entirely cornered by the Tea Party, which the left hates and will make no common cause with, but if these programs were efficient and sustainable, the Tea Party and similar movements would basically cease to exist because... who could complain?

Problem is, admitting their is a problem is perceived as polictical weakness.