Lots of Americans want to cut government spending, and when they are being demonstrated that this would be very hurtful, they respond that there's plenty of money for debt service, military payrolls, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and that some liberal media and the White House are just trying to scare them about the consequences of refusing to raise the debt ceiling. Read The Atlantic Mag (far from a liberal media) article and look at the graph to detail this big "spending" basket...
Read more …Lots of Americans want to cut government spending, and when they are being demonstrated that this would be very hurtful, they respond that there's plenty of money for debt service, military payrolls, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and that some liberal media and the White House are just trying to scare them about the consequences of refusing to raise the debt ceiling. Read The Atlantic Mag (far from a liberal media) article and look at the graph to detail this big "spending" basket they have in their head, although they're not focusing on the line items. So how much cuts are you ready to stomach?