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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I simply can't take the gamesmanship seriously when we refuse to look at our largest budget item:

-Defense spending. The defense budget is $742 billion in 2023. You have to roll up ALL our so-called "entitlement programs" to rival that spending. And the Pentagon has never passed an audit. We just ended two 20 year wars. You want to cut the budget? Start there.[/quote]

Medicare and medicaid are 1.516 Trillion a year.
Social Security is 1.250 Trillion a year.
Defense is 775 Billion a year.
Interest on the debt is 520 Billion a year.

The current national debt is 94,200 per person.
The current national debt is 247,000 per tax payer.

Those are the numbers provided by the federal government[/quote]

Social security and medicare are technically not government money. I am old enough to remember when Al Gore got laughed off stage for suggesting a lock box for these programs to ensure they were funded through when the baby boomers died off. Welp, Bush "won" the election and here we are.[/quote]

Medicare and SS aren't government money?  What are you smoking dude?[/quote]

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