Will The Government Shut Down On Friday?

I guess that is the big question. Of course both sides are digging in their heels...the Republicans with their usual facts and figures, and the Democrats with their usual shrill rhetoric about Grandma dying of starvation and little children dying of every imaginable ill, because the mean Conservatives want to cut the social services budget and give it to the military and the oil companies. Of course any idiot can go online to the congressional budget office and see where the facts are. Right now defense spending is about 20% of GDP, foreign aid is less than 1%, and guess what hippies? Social Services spending is almost 50% of the federal budget. You want us to spend more on social services? You mean you want to make it easier for lazy people to get on the public dole. Grandma and Grandpa are going to be taken care of. Don't worry. They are not going to be eating Alpo. Let's do something different here. Let's means test welfare benefits and Social Security. They are running out of money. Why should a wealthy retired couple making $100,000 per year in retirement income need Social Security. Yes, I know, they paid into it, and are entitled to it. I pay taxes that fund Welfare payments, but I'm not eligible to collect Welfare. I make too much money.

Speaking of Welfare, let's means test that too, and make it contingent on mandatory job training, job search, mandatory drug, alcohol, and nicotine testing, and having no social life. You stay home and take care of your kids, and you don't date. You learn to follow the rules and become productive.

Reform welfare and other social services with means testing and a requirement for personal responsibility. De-fund NPR and PBS. It's not that their funding is that large, but it's a symbolic gesture directed at the sanctimonious upper middle class, over educated Elites, who view themselves as our betters. You're not. We are not going to bow to you. Keep pushing us, and we'll shove it in your left ear, and you know which left ear I'm referring to. It's time for Middle America to stand up on its hind legs and get mean and nasty. The time is long over due.