Cut Spending!

The GOP's big refrain, but only since Obama became President, is to CUT SPENDING!!  They keep hammering on and on and on that spending is out of control!  The debt is out of control!!  

This bullshit is all so transparent to anyone who does not exclusively watch FOX NEWS or listen to Rush Limbaugh. 

First, if we have a spending problem at all, we have a MILITARY spending problem.  Our military budget is larger than the next 15 nations COMBINED.  

Second, look at the chart.  This graph was compiled by Forbes magazine, not exactly a left-leaning organization.

It is quite obvious that it's the REPUBLICANS who spend like drunken sailors, and it's the DEMOCRATS who tend to curtail spending.  I wish for ONCE the GOP would quit LYING about everything.  

Oh, yeah, third, we didn't hear a PEEP out of the CUT SPENDING crowd while George W. Bush gave HUGE tax cuts, started two wars and put them on the U.S. credit card, and passed the Medicare Rx drug fix.  He kept the costs of the wars OFF OF THE BOOKS!!  And all those "supplementals" were likewise not even listed in any budget!  

So, when Obama comes into office, he puts all those costs on the books where they belong, and LO AND BEHOLD, suddenly we have a SPENDING PROBLEM!!

It is obvious to just about anyone that this cry of CUT SPENDING is a ruse to cut back on entitlements, or as some call them, EARNED BENEFITS.  

For a long time, the GOP has been trying to "shrink the size of the government so that it could be drowned in a bathtub."  They have, by and large, been successful at starving the federal government.  And what happens when you shrink government revenues?  Well, government program start to be cut or you do go deep into debt.  And one of the first places the GOP wants to cut is social programs.  Can't EVER cut the military.  Oh, no no no!

For the life of me, I don't know why the GOP and Republicans in general seem to HATE THE POOR so much. Do they just hate anyone who is not rich?  They seem jealous of anyone getting ANYTHING from the government, unless, of course, it's THEIR friends who are getting government contracts, or their rich friends getting more tax breaks.  

The rich already have so much.  Why do they resent the less-well-off getting a leg up now and then?