What is more important than social programs for poor people?

[cynatnite]

Wasteful military spending...that's what according to the repukes.

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http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/04/wasteful_military.html


Yesterday, House Republicans moved legislation forward aimed at preventing any reductions in military spending, even if that means cutting much needed programs for the nation’s poorest. The House Armed Services Committee’s bill provides $554 billion for the Pentagon — $29 billion more than DOD had requested — while the GOP-led Budget Committee packaged six bills that would “slice $261 billion from food stamps, Medicaid, social services and other programs for struggling Americans.”

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/08/480017/mccarthy-trimming-fat-poor/

[datasuspect]

1. whoa - hold on just one second!

defense contractors throw better parties, serve stronger drinks and better food than your average poor person.

and when was the last time a welfare recipient ever wrote a nice fat campaign contribution check, huh?

or got a nephew or son a high paying job/seat on a board/country club membership?

i've eaten what poor people eat - there's no way we can expect our elected representatives to side with them.

[azmaximillian]

2. I know !

What is more important than social programs for poor people?

A new Jet, a weekend on the "little" yacht, A stay at one of my eight houses ?

[Rex]

3. The only thing the GOP wants out of the poor

is to enlist to fight the wars the GOP starts.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. I didn't realize we had poor people. Politicians never talk about them.

Even Democrats. It's all about the middle class.

[Dragonfli]

6. I didn't realize we had a middle class, outside of Doctors laywers and insurance guys, everybody I

know has fallen from middle into a much lower class, even those that did much better once with the same jobs.

It's getting to be the extreme rich, mostly working poor, and destitute as the three classes, I thought the middle class fell forever into the last two.

[Dragonfli]

5. I knew this was going to happen with that deal, there will be no military cuts In the end,

This excrement will go to the Senate where there will be bi-partisan agreement on a solution that is 90% of this Republican house bill, then, I imagine it will get signed in a bi-partisan photo op.

The only hope we have is the election year may scare some of the Third Way types into loudly opposing this bill.
I hope the election season thing will encourage the Administration to fight over this rather than the usual.

[librechik]

7. Easy. The Bush Taxcut.

GOP: "let them die"

[wendylaroux]

8. As long as there are enough

to fight the wars,repugs really don't care what happens to the poor. They never have,and they never will. And the lack of a living wage,makes military pay look real real good.