Here’s something I can’t quite figure out:
In all the back-and-forth over the debt ceiling increase, it’s become de rigueur to demand program cuts and budget tightening now rather than in the ‘out-years’ because the cuts will never materialize. Inasmuch, we’re often told: “You can’t bind a future Congress”.
If that’s the case, then why is there such a thing as “mandatory spending”?
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from HQ)
The elephants in the room are the elderly and virtually no one on either side is spelling that out in terms the average person gets.
While it’s true that SS and Medicare are eating us alive, there are slot of us middle-age types that will be reliant on it to some degree. By my estimate, counting my employers’ payments, I will have paid somewhere between $350 and 400 thousand into SS by the time I hit 65.
That’s one helluva lost opportunity. It’s a lose-lose situation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-are-we-in-this-debt-fix-its-the-elderly-stupid/2011/07/28/gIQA08LtfI_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions
Well GOProud can help build your “non-mandatory spending” future Republican congress while rallying up support at next year’s CPAC.
Oh, wait………GOProud was DISINVITED from next year’s CPAC. I guess the anti-gay Family Research Council and American Family Association are more important to the “conservative movement” than GOProud.
This is all interesting for an organization that broke off of Log Cabin Republicans, and has repeatedly stressed how much GOProud embodies the “conservative agenda” not the “gay agenda.”
And it’s a little ironic that a lot of conservatives (esp. on this site) claim “to be more comfortable with straight conservatives than with other gays.” Unfortunately, the straight conservatives in the conservative grass-roots movements don’t feel that comfortable with gay conservatives. Forget about being seen, and not heard. They don’t want you to be seen either — unless you’re in the middle of West Hollywood or the Castro attacking gay liberals.
Don’t worry — you can all attend CPAC next year as “individual” members — but it’s probably preferable if you go back into the closet, or even perhaps consider reparative therapy sessions with Mr. Marcus Bachmann. While straight conservatives can trot out their spouses and children, introducing your same-sex partner to conservatives is just offensive.
GOProud’s statement —
http://www.goproud.org/goproud-statement-on-cpac/
Here’s the hilarity, James: your entire argument is that CPAC should treat GOProud differently than other organizations because they are gay.
That’s what this is all about. GOProud screwed up last year; its leadership and board attacked CPAC’s leadership and board. It was a stupid and intemperate attack that they regret doing, but it happened, and this is the consequence.
That is normal. No one in their right mind would seriously state that you are somehow evil if you don’t invite to your gathering an organization whose leadership attacked you. But as we see, gays and lesbians like yourself, James, are really nothing more than disgusting little hypocrites who try to use their sexual orientation to get out of taking responsibility for their behavior.
Furthermore, you’re hilarious. You and your fellow gay and lesbian liberals and psychologists endorse and support dressing children as sexual slaves and taking them to sex fairs for an “educational experience”. You’re going on about “therapy” when you and yours are masturbating and having sex in front of TODDLERS to “educate” them.
No comment on that, James? Why don’t you speak out against the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists supporting and endorsing the people who do this? Do you think it’s “ethical” for them to endorse and support the behavior of their member John Kruse? Did you know that both John Kruse and Gary Beuschel are Obama Party officials and donors, who believe that sexualizing children is normal behavior?
Oh, and you want to see something else, James? Want to see what gay and lesbian “marriage” organizations support?
Embezzling millions of dollars from your employer, apparently.
Think that’s normal behavior? Gays and lesbians like yourself do. Isn’t that interesting — gays and lesbians like you steal from hardworking Americans and companies so that you can kick back money to politicians and your fellow child-raping perverts.
And you know what’s funny, James? You’re going to come back here screaming about how mean and awful I am for holding you and your fellow gays and lesbians accountable. And then you’re going to commit the ultimate hilarity of whining about painting people with a broad brush when you just smeared all conservatives above.
You’re a hypocritical little liar who couldn’t function without having your sexual orientation as an excuse. That’s why you so hate and loathe conservatives who judge you by your actions and character instead of giving you a free pass based on your minority status.
Meanwhile, getting back to the point at hand, Nick, you’re right — there is no such thing as “mandatory spending”. The thing that gives Medicare and Social Security their adamantine perception of “mandatory” is the perceived knowledge of what would happen if they STOPPED paying them.
This is why the first place Obamacrats run when cornered on finances is to Medicare and Social Security. Witness delusional Pelosi shrieking this afternoon that the Boehner bill would destroy Medicare, when I doubt it even refers in any way TO Medicare. Stupid Pelosi hides behind Medicare because she doesn’t want to talk about why she blew millions of taxpayer dollars having military jets fly her and her family around the country.
James’s priorities: No. 1 -Make bitchy little snip about CPAC. Somewhere much, much lower on the list – Concern about the USA’s unsustainable defciits.
This has been your daily look into the mind of a dippy liberal.
Now, hopefully, back to serious adult discussion; unless Levi or Cas show up.
Isn’t it interesting, V the K? Liberals like James seem absolutely terrified of people who actually would judge them by their behavior instead of giving them a free pass based on minority status.
I think your insight the other day about how liberals like James are feudalists at heart is spot on. James and his fellow liberals have no intention of following/obeying/paying the rules/laws/taxes they impose. Instead, they believe that their privileged status — be it gender, skin color, sexual orientation, or whatever — should exempt them from any and all such petty considerations.
And one more observation on V the K’s remarks:
James’s priorities: No. 1 -Make bitchy little snip about CPAC. Somewhere much, much lower on the list – Concern about the USA’s unsustainable defciits.
Spot on.
What conservatives see when they look at gays and lesbians like James are people who frankly do not give a damn about anything else other than the degree to which they’re pandered.
James and his fellow gays and lesbians would be just fine and dandy with Soviet-style socialism if they had gay-sex marriage. Indeed, they’d probably love it, because the Soviets suppressed religion mercilessly.
Folks, there is nothing mandatory about Social Security. Here is how it works:
1.) a certain percent of your earnings is held for you under lock and key by the people at Fort Knox.
2.) Inside Fort Knox there are millions of vaults. One of those vaults has your name and social security number on it.
3.) When your social security contributions (CONTRIBUTIONS can not be mandatory) arrive at the government contribution headquarters, the social security department takes them in hand and puts the correct amount of government IOU’s in a locked bag with your name and social security number on it and loads it on the Bigger and Better than Brinks Government Airplane and flies it to Fort Knox. Inside the bunker, your personal social security valet puts the IOU’s inside your personal vault.
4.) When you start drawing social security, your vault is emptied into a huge machine that sends you checks until you die or maybe longer.
5.) The machine that sends you checks has to have more “revenue” added from Somewhere Else because it writes more checks than it has IOU’s dumped into it. This is caused by a special function called the Ponzi Stream. It is named after Fred Stream who invented the Ponzi valve. Fred Stream also invented the part of the machine where the extra money is put it and it is known as the Revenue Stream.
6.) Social Security has plenty of money. It is NOT broke. All those vaults are full of the IOU’s which feed the machine. The problem is keeping the Ponzi valve primed which requires the revenue stream to keep flowing. This requires the Maynard Keynes to suck in Contributions from Somewhere Else.
7.) In a certain sense, the Maynard Keynes function might be considered “mandatory” if you are a particularly cynical, typical conservative who wants to see old people dying in the streets.
8.) Medicare and Medicaid are part of this process only different. But don’t worry.