Math schmath!

The cost of wars and taxing the rich. To listen to the left, you'd
think that we could solve obama's $1.5 t-t-t-trillion deficits with a
little more peace and Fairness.

But, when one engages one's brain, it's just as easy to see the folly
of these mantras as any liberal *ideas*.

This year, we will spend a little less than $700 billion on the
military, including the cost of the wars.

End Bush's tax cuts for the filthy, putrid rich? Hmmm, the CBO
estimates that that will save $80 billion ($800 billion over 10 years
- about the cost to pay off the unions... I mean, keep unemployment
below 8%).

So, cut the military COMPLETELY and take away the Bush tax cuts for
the selfish rich, and what do we have? Hmmm, not even 1/2 of an obama
deficit.


Then consider that the federal government paid out $2,300,000,000,000
to households (SS, food stamps, housing subsidies, etc) in 2010. The
Federal government took in **only** $2,200,000,000,000.

So, they're redistributing even more that they're taking in. And we
haven't even touched a road, an Air Traffic Controller's salary and
nap package, or cash for an artist making things out of Mason jars and
Crayolas, much less the more trivial things like a military or other
national security funding.

The small thinking that is the left ain't gonna be able to deal with
this in any meaningful way.


--

"Community organizers shouldn't become presidents, unless it's of a
condo association or coin collecting club." - Buzz
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