Quote Originally Posted by opas ride View Post
I agree and just cannot understand how any fair minded person with a least 1/2 a brain would vote for this "sorry excuse for a human being"..Trump has his faults, as do most of us, but to place a known liar, crook, and useless piece of "political shit" in charge of the USA is very troubling and scary.....But as they say "the MASSES ARE ASSES".....JMHO
Hi Opas,
There's a very simple answer to your question. ENTITLEMENTS
The Democrats exist to give away the farm, and as long as someone wants to sit on their ass and wait for the mailman to deliver their entitlements, they'll turn out
in numbers to vote for whoever is handing out the checks. We have 5th and 6th generation families living on entitlements, they know nothing else.


On the other hand, the people who are recipients of entitlement programs were never informed of the following, nor do they care.
Truth No. 1: Entitlement programs are huge, expensive, and reach into every corner of American life.
Truth No. 2: Entitlement programs are not self-funding and are a main driver of deficits.
Truth No. 3: Entitlement costs are growing at an alarming rate.
Truth No. 4: Longer life expectancies, changing demographics, and soaring costs explain why entitlements as we know them today are unsustainable
Truth No. 5: Not a single major entitlement program is projected to be financially solvent 20 years from now.
Truth No. 6: The cost to make these programs financially solvent for the next 75 years is almost $40 trillion.
Truth No. 7: Mandatory spending—entitlement programs and interest on the debt—are already squeezing out important investments in other essential programs.
Truth No. 8: We have nothing to fear from carefully crafted, phased-in adjustments to our entitlement programs.
Truth No. 9: We can reform entitlements without baseline cuts and without breaking our commitment to the nation’s seniors, people with disabilities, and the poor.
Truth No. 10: The biggest threat imaginable to Medicare or Social Security as we know them will be if we do nothing at all.


They also do not care that the federal government is spending 92 cents out of every dollar it receives on entitlement programs, plus interest on the federal debt.
That leaves just 8 cents of every dollar to pay for everything else the federal government does.