I don't want to increase taxes, because even if you tax rich people or corporations, it really is taxing everyone, because you will have less jobs and it will hurt the economy.
We can't bind future Congresses, so there's no guarantee that any of those cuts ever occur.
You can't just say that we're going to spend $2 billion, why not spend $4 billion or why not spend $10 billion to save more money?
Perhaps the $2 billion we spend on OAA, if we subsumed that into another program and didn't spend it, that might be saving money.
We all have sympathy. We just have different ideas of how to go about addressing the sympathy.
Should the government be the first one lining up so the kids can get the million dollars that granddad has?
You have to ask yourself, if you had $100 who would you give it to?
The GAO recently issued a report finding that there are over 70 duplicate programs, 70 duplicate Federal programs, dealing with nutrition.
Actually, I think there were originally Meals on Wheels programs that were private and relied on private funding from churches and other gro...
The consequences of malnutrition are devastating.
These are fundamental questions and not idle questions, in the sense that we have to ask these questions because we're out of money.