Government Lunch Money

[August]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Ok. Guess you missed every other post I made in the thread...you know, the ones where I used facts and data to back up my statements. If you want to ignore that in a bizarre attempt to characterize what I said as a "personal insult" then that's your prerogative.

So now you're back to calling your starving school children statement "facts and data"? Perhaps i'm just too pedantic to understand you.

And "My president" he says.

Yeah your president. You're the one who is supporting his policies every day on this forum. You can hardly claim to be an independent. I had high hopes for the guy but he's just turned out to be another typical elitist Democrat thinking he knows what's best for me. He ain't been right yet.

I'll break it down to it's simplest form: if spending as a %age of GDP is at its highest level in years, and revenues as a %age of GDP are at their lowest level in years, why is one or the other off the table? That makes no sense to me. It's pure myopia.

It doesn't make sense to you because you see peoples wealth as something that you have a right to tap into as much as you want.

To heck with GDP, it doesn't matter how much the American people make, or more accurately claim the American people make according to some arcane set of easily manipulated "indicators". It does not give the Federal government license to spend more and more without limit.
Government spending is the highest EVER, not "in years" or "multi-generations", EVER. You seem to quite fine with that. I am not.

[August]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Government expenditures for feeding children is always a worthwhile expense no matter how you cut it. This a email I received just yesterday. We get a call as well. Just the way our school system here does things. At any rate, combating hunger concerning children, assistance is there. It is a good cause and the state recognizes that food is one key to learning. Learning is the key to becoming a productive member of society.

I agree that it is worthwhile but those programs are best run at a local or state level where the families who are affected by it have the most control over how the money is spent.

The Feds piss away billions and we have little to show for it.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah your president. You're the one who is supporting his policies every day on this forum.

Yeah, you know, just the other day I was writing a glowing approval of his time in office....

[August]

Yeah whatever. As long as it doesn't involve giving the Federal government more money.