In the ongoing debate about what fat we need to cut off our budget in an attempt to reel in our 14 trillion dollar national deficit, a clear distinction emerges between the two parties. The Democrats want to cut the military budget—largest in the world—which is also the government sector most directly responsible for the doubled deficit in the last half decade due to the Iraq War, the creation of Homeland Security, and deals for defense contractors that have never been costlier, among other things. They want to cut a three percent tax cut for the richest one percent in the country. And they want to cut corporate welfare given to such fledgling small businesses as massive oil conglomerates with higher operating budgets than some European countries. Basically, they want to take money from sectors or people that can afford it.
They also aren’t ruling out new streams of revenue to help reduce the deficit like online gaming (conservatively estimated as a 5 billion dollar a year industry based in bullshit offshore locations like the Isle of Man but currently paying no taxes to the United States because it is “illegal”). Republicans refuse to vote in any new revenue streams to help ease the burden, saying they’re fundamentally opposed to it—it’s great people are able to hang on to their lofty dogma while others lose their jobs—as it goes against a principle of conservative philosophy. They want to cut spending, but not any of the spending the Democrats have put on the table, coincidentally where the most money goes. They are interested in one simple word, an umbrella term people don’t think of as themselves: entitlements.
Senior citizens hear “entitlements” and think “Good, quit giving those welfare bums a handout,” not realizing it applies to social security and medicare (the very things Al Gore wanted to use the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind for, but people dismissed for an easy Bush tax cut no one was really asking for during an economic boom time). They don’t think those things should be cut, and I agree, but Republicans have made no secret about wanting to privatize or severely restrict these things for a long time.
Economic data collected off the 2010 census said that without social security and medicare over 50 percent of the nation’s elderly population would sink below the poverty line, but Republicans are still insisting on reducing these services or privatizing them altogether even though almost two thirds of elderly voters voted Republican in the last midterm election. How’s that for loyalty to your constituents?
An ongoing problem with white elderly voters is that they routinely see the Democrat party as working for everyone but them. They think the young people coordinated an internet campaign to elect the black guy president (probably to spite them) and he’s giving their money, healthcare, and country away to illegal Hispanics. Ignoring that the Democrat party, or the FDR party, has single handedly secured most of the benefits they now rely on.
I have heard near universal complaining from the elderly that the “Obamacare communist healthcare bill” is the worst thing since they quit making butterscotch taffy, but they never present a clear case of how it’s socialism. They just say its government provided healthcare, but it isn’t even that, and they enjoy medicare. What the healthcare law might do is allow their 25 year old granddaughter to get back on their son’s insurance or allow them access to cheaper prescription pills. In any other way, their health insurance doesn’t change much at all.
If you think not allowing homosexuals the right to marry is really more important than your own survival instincts or need to be able to keep the heat on in your home, then maybe you should vote Republican. For everyone else, please consider Obama in 2012 in a way you really didn’t in 2008. The evil conspiracy of young people and ACORN that “rigged” the election for Obama the first time, really don’t need your votes to win again, but it would be great to have them.
good luck telling my grandmother that…she won’t vote that way but should
I know that older people and poorer people should vote Democratic because the other party doesn’t give a damn about any one that is not rich and powerful. I can’t believe I see old pickup trucks beat to hell and back with a Republican party sign. WTF?
Really????What are poorer people thinking. All they want is for your son or daughter to fight and get killed for the country so the rich can get richer. WAKE up people!
Don’t get me started. Cutting from the defense budeget makes people think you aren’t a REAL American. (whatever that shit means) I have a soror )(sorority sister) who is a social worker for the state of Alabama and she says so many people vote against their won self interest there. Especially white southerners. They are the ones reaping the benefits of the “social programs” but will vote Reublican. Don’t they know that party wants to get rid of programs that HELP people? Just like Ronald Regan. (Can’t stand that man) He didn’t beleive in the so called sociailized programs..but these same programs helped his dad and uncle get jobs during the Depression.
sorry..a lot of typos…I get that way when I am pumped!
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