Originally Posted by aklim

Somewhere in there, I hope you remember that what you spend on is also very important. I'm sure you will agree that blowing my entire food budget on Twinkies, Doritos and soda then calling it "buying edibles" isn't a good idea.

More strange is how we co-mingle the money from SS to pay for a lot of other things. Still, what do you expect? Those things that the politicians sold us on by telling us that we can have it all with just a nudge here and a little tweak there have to be paid for somehow.

If we simply raise revenues and have "business as usual" we will be in trouble years from now too. Get your spending in line first WITHOUT the slights of hand and then show us why you need the money and we can discuss raises in revenue. I can't see what that is such an unfair demand seeing as how they have proven time and time again that they cannot control their spending. If you cannot pay for what you have, don't start new things. If I cannot put food on my table, why am I buying a new pleasure craft?

Well, that sounds as though we have placed ourselves hostage from starting those programs, doesn't it?