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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you care OP? What have they done to you? Do you get extra money for every child who goes to bed hungry? [/quote]

* In 2015, the federal government spent 63% of its finances on social programs, including income security, healthcare, education, housing, and recreation. This amounts to $2.5 trillion or an average of $20,210 for every household in the U.S.[116]

[img]http://www.justfacts.com/images/nationaldebt/expenditures_function-full.png[/img]

† Social programs include income security, healthcare, education, housing, and recreation.
‡ National defense includes military spending and veterans' benefits.
§ General government and debt service includes the executive & legislative branches, tax collection, financial management, and interest payments.
# Economic affairs includes transportation, general economic & labor affairs, agriculture, natural resources, energy, and space. (This excludes spending for infrastructure projects such as new highways, which is not accounted for in this graph.[36])
£ Public order and safety includes police, fire, law courts, prisons, and immigration enforcement.

http://www.justfacts.com/socialspending.asp

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Doesn't this include Social Security and Medicare? Ya know, the same SS and Medicare that literally all of us look forward to collecting when we get older?

Newsflash: the republicans want to slash *that* part of the social safety net as well. We have to stop them. All of us...even the yuppies...will need SS and Medicare when we get older. All of us.

Don't let the republicans screw you, your parents, and your kids out of the programs that work. We paid into them, and we should get to collect. [/quote]
The liberala are always going on about bigger fear centers in Republicans' brains, but then they revert to fear-mongering in order to garner votes.

SS and Medicare HAVE to have a slight adjustment in order to keep them solvent. Why is that such a confusing concept to liberals? Would it be so terrible to you rich DCUMers earning $250k if you have  to pay SS taxes up to $200k? That way, you'd be ensuring that people will get SS in their old age, and many depend on it for the bulk of their income. (After all, you all always claim to care about other people.)

Same thing with Medicare. Maybe we have to increase deductibles (like Obamacare did) to $6000 before anything is covered. That will ease up the pressures in the program. Or maybe increase premiums by $200 a month to retirees with incomes over $100,000. Maybe we need to do both.

Point is....you can't keep increasing spending year-over-year when you are running a deficit that threatens insolvency in 20 years. [/quote]
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Liberals are fine with having the wealthy pay their fair share[/b]. It's the republicans who can't quite grasp that concept.

And FTR, my comment was meant for the racist fear monger who thinks the big numbers reflected in the chart represent illegals sucking federal program dollars. It's just not true. The biggest chunk of the pie is SS and Medicare...which goes to elderly citizens who paid into the system. [/quote]
You think so? Raise the SS cap to $200k, and watch the liberals on this forum scream holy murder. To liberals, "wealthy" is always someone who earns more than they do.

As far as the "racist fear monger" who thinks the big dollars in the chart represent illegals sucking program dollars, IF that was his point, I agree it's not the illegals. It's that we have far too big a proportion of Americans on the government dole, in one form or another, and not enough putting into the system. This country cannot survive if only half the people are paying federal income taxes. Everyone, other than the really poor or disabled, has to have some skin in the game. Even a token amount.

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