In order to have a chance to realize the “compassionate entitlements” that you hope for, people are going to have to work longer thereby shortening the average retirement by a couple of years. Otherwise, you will reach retirement and find nothing waiting for you.

Investments should be made in better accounting software and more financial audits. My understanding is that we save about $10 for every $1 spent on auditors/watchdog groups.

http://articles.cnn.com/2005-01-30/world/iraq.audit_1_iraq-reconstruction-stuart-w-bowen-iraqi-money?_s=PM:WORLD

I feel that the party Republicans have successfully dealt any recent attempts at reform, fatal blows.

While I was pleased with Rand Paul’s budget cut proposal, and think it is the only way to go, I think he has also fallen prey to the party Republicans long goal to gut and cut Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.

Advocating cutting these entitlements will stop him in his tracks, totally. You can’t raise the retirement age to 2 years before the average age of death. It makes no sense. And people are way too scared of the government now to give up their entitlements. Rightly so… It won’t happen.

But the party Republicans know this FULL WELL. They are shoving this agenda into the budget conversation, by force. These are the same idiots that insist that the conservatives take over the role of administering people’s private lives. The same idiots that encourage unfounded wars, to stir up hate, to encourage more wars. They know what they are doing and they are destroying the new conservative movement. Its a total trap.

And besides, its BAD government. While I am a firm believer that the state has grown way too large, Laissez-faire economics also leads to anarchy. It never reduces monopolies, it leads to them. And slavery.

Why do the newly elected conservatives act like the leftist government are the only ones not listening to the people? With regard to entitlements, they are doing the same thing.

I’m sorry about the new conservatives. I had really high hopes for Rand Paul. But this is the way to stop the whole thing completely, which is what the globalists want. If he is that dumb….

A stripped-down government, with compassionate entitlements is what really scares the globalists, and is the winning combo. Until then, the new movement will RIP.

The President’s Budget is most often declared “dead on arrival,” and Congress (whose Constitutional job it is), not The Executive, passes whatever appropriations and taxes it feels like. Congress, not The President, is charged with

Article I, Section 7:

All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

Article 1, Section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 is a good read. It is worthwhile to note that OMB (established in the Act as the Bureau of the Budget) has not certified the Federal budget (and appropriations) since 1996 … it can’t pass an audit.

Article I, Section 8 of The Constitution is also a good read. Draw your own conclusions: is Congress doing its job?

Or are the limbo funds part of a retirement program for people yet to be named……

Idiots. I have to balance to the penny on my accounts when I close every month.