WE DON'T NEED CUTS IN ENTITLEMENT SPENDING!

[kag]

I'm disgusted at the headlines I'm seeing that say, "Campaign to cut entitlement spending growing in U.S."

People are screaming about fiscal responsibility and our maddening national debt. But the REASON we have this debt is because

A. We're paying for two unfunded wars, neither of which have any end in sight,
B. Billionaires in this country don't pay taxes because they sock it away in the Caymens and Switzerland.
C. Billionaires in this country are crooks who cheat and steal to make their fortunes while
D. Our jobs are being sent overseas by corporations who also don't pay taxes, and
D. We were tricked into following Wall Street toward a cliff, and then getting shoved in front when we got to it.

And how do we fix it? Well according to the right, we need to take money from people who receive welfare, social security and Medicare. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS GODDAMN PICTURE!!??

We don't need to reel in entitlement spending, we need to reel in unbridled greed! We need to tax corporations, tax billionaires, regulate the banks and the insurance companies, and audit the fucking fed! We need to not be afraid to throw people in jail when they rig the odds on Wall Street or when they improve their corporate bottom line by not giving people the healthcare that they paid for. We need fix our military--not so that we can necessarily cut its spending, but so that the soldiers who fight for us get the pay and benefits that they deserve, instead of getting tortured into signing an agreement that says they have a "personality disorder" when they actually got brain damage because a BOMB EXPLODED NEXT TO THEM! We need to legalize pot and stop throwing half of our citizens in jail for smoking weed. We need to treat mental illness instead of ignoring it. We need to suck it up and offer a path to citizenship to the people who are here, and then come up with a reasonable immigration policy for the ones who aren't. We need to close Gitmo, close the black prison sites, and stop hiring Halliburton to fuck up our relationship with Islamic countries!

BUT WE DO NOT NEED A CUT IN ENTITLEMENT SPENDING!!!

Okay. I'm done. For now.

Edited to change the subject line so that people will know what I'm ranting about!