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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
Good point.
The right isn't doing much better. the proposed cuts by Cantor et al are just more of the same. keep cutting from 12% of the budget, leave defense and entitlements (88%) untouched...
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You're saying that Eric Cantor has never suggested that entitlements need to be cut?
Oh please. Eric Cantor is one of the FEW politicians brave and honest enough to admit that real savings, real fiscal responsibility, can only come from addressing the other 88% of the budget that you mentioned. Namely, social security, medicare, and medicaid.
Every time a republican says that we need to fix social security, the democrats say that he hates old people. Every time a republican says medicare is going broke and needs to be overhauled, some lefty clown like Allen Grayson says that conservatives don't care about sick people.
NJ governor Chris Christie is saying the same things at the state level (that we need to reign in these entitlements), and he gets attacked mercilessly. His crime? He's the first politician in my generation that's being honest about these Ponzi schemes.
Cantor jabs at Reid on Social Security reform - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Harry Reid, the Senate Democrat leader, does not think that social security is in trouble. And this idiot keeps getting re-elected, and re-elected, and re-elected...
I agree that many on the right are not "much" better, because they too are too concened with re-election (which is exactly why we need term limits). But how many Democrats are saying that current entitlements are un-sustainable? Not everyone is saying that, but of those who are, most are conservative, in my observation.