99% of poor people have refridgerators!

End Government Pork

... so we can take home more bacon

Trans_Maro wrote: Here's a thought. Why don't we stop giving our criminals free housing, TV and food (Prison) and use those resources to take care of the poor. Then, take those who belong in prison, force them to do the jobs that pay less than wellfare does at no salary because, hey, you're a criminal, you have no rights anymore. Cram them in tents all year round when they're not working and make sure the guards are well-armed. nah. Makes too much sense, they'll never do it.

Oh, yes, he did!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1tfIKUZ0fY

Business as usual:

"Seven months ago, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a landmark report identifying at least $200 billion in wasteful, duplicative, and fraudulent government programs... Yet, in the last seven months, Congress has failed to send a single cut identified by GAO to the president’s desk. Even worse, instead of cutting the spending identified by GAO, the Senate Appropriations Committee is now proposing to slash funding for GAO itself."

fasted58 wrote:

Snowdoggie wrote:

Otto Maddox wrote: In reply to fasted58: Yeah, I really work hard and still I live in a van down by the river. I've got no damn refrigamerator.

Back when I was a boy, I had to walk 10 miles uphill both ways through the freezing snow and 100* temps wearing worn out shoes with holes in them and no socks....

FTFY

FTFY some more

nderwater wrote: Business as usual: "Seven months ago, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a landmark report identifying at least $200 billion in wasteful, duplicative, and fraudulent government programs... Yet, in the last seven months, Congress has failed to send a single cut identified by GAO to the president’s desk. Even worse, instead of cutting the spending identified by GAO, the Senate Appropriations Committee is now proposing to slash funding for GAO itself."

hmmm.. somebody's pet project on that list?

nderwater wrote: Business as usual: "Seven months ago, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a landmark report identifying at least $200 billion in wasteful, duplicative, and fraudulent government programs... Yet, in the last seven months, Congress has failed to send a single cut identified by GAO to the president’s desk. Even worse, instead of cutting the spending identified by GAO, the Senate Appropriations Committee is now proposing to slash funding for GAO itself."

This speaks volumes. It's all about someone else, whoever that is, footing the bill, taking the cut, doing the dirty work. Our politicians all suck. Once elected they work their collective arses off to get re-elected. They aren't going to do anything to piss off big $$ donors to cut any of the waste...cuz it isn't waste to someone somewhere, it's money.

And if congress really believes in all their BS, then why do they have separate healthcare plans, retirement, etc...because that crap is for "other people" not for them.

JoeyM wrote: They are different, but they have similar goals. Both are government programs to assist people in home ownership. Despite this, Suzanne Mettler found that, of the people in her study who claimed the Mortgage Interest Deduction, more than half claimed that they weren't taking part in any government assistance programs Lot's of people who don't think they are using government assistance programs seem to conveniently forget that they actually are

A bit off topic here but I have to take offense to the G.I. Bill being considered a government assistance program. Veterans have to pay into the program while they are in the service and it is a benefit of their service to help offset the abysmal pay they receive, not an assistance program.

JThw8 wrote:

JoeyM wrote: Lot's of people who don't think they are using government assistance programs seem to conveniently forget that they actually are

A bit off topic here but I have to take offense to the G.I. Bill being considered a government assistance program. Veterans have to pay into the program while they are in the service and it is a benefit of their service to help offset the abysmal pay they receive, not an assistance program.

I think I get where you're coming from....I know that people who risk their lives to protect us deserve some perks, and that the GI Bill is not a handout. Honestly, I'm sure the authors of that graph didn't mean to denigrate the service enlisted men (and women) provide to our nation. I know that I certainly didn't.

I think part of the problem is that "assistance" (i.e. help) is becoming a "dirty word" in our political lexicon....and it should not be one.

The GI Bill and Social Security - each of which are on that list - are government programs that people pay into at one point in time, and draw from at a later date. Both are designed to help improve (i.e. "assist") the lives of the people utilizing them.

No problem Joey, I know you didn't mean it as an insult. I just found it odd that it would be listed as an assistance program.