If Americans Are Stupid Enough To Fall For This - They Deserve Whatever They Get.

[DeistPaladin]

I was really talking about career welfare recipients.

You are right about the corporate welfare. It's crony capitalism.

It is a strange breed of "capitalism" we have here in America, I agree.

I'm all in favor of discussing the abuse of any government program. If you're looking for a broken part of our welfare system, the disability process is really broken. People who truly need it are denied while there are others who are capable of working who are successfully on it.

That said, the working poor is the new face of food stamp recipients. The GOP shrieks about "more people on food stamps than ever" but they don't look into why that is. Raising the minimum wage or billing the corporations for their workers on public assistance would drastically reduce those numbers.

I also have a problem with the one-sided "fiscal conservatism" of the GOP. If the GOP has all of a sudden, after saying "deficits don't matter" through the Bush years, suddenly decided that we need to bring down the debt, we need to put EVERYTHING on the table, including all the stuff the GOP loves:

• All forms of corporate welfare
  
• Our already bloated defense budget (needs to be cut in half at least)
  
• Tax cuts for the rich which have no stimulative value to the economy
  
• The War on Drugs
  
• Tax exempt status for churches
  

I wish Democrats would be proactive just once. Instead of reacting to the GOP's demands, turn the table and say, "Oh, we're broke are we? Well, let's talk about what we need to cut then."