According to Federal Budget: Fact File…
Food and nutrition assistance (foodstamps, free lunch program, etc.) comprise 1.9% of the budget.
Family support (what most of us think of as “welfare checks”) is 1.2%.
Housing assistance is 1.6%.
These three things combined don’t come close to the amount spent in by the warhawks and their Howdy-Doody puppet.
And yet when all those self-righteous, money-tight conservatives talk about wasteful spending, what’s the first thing they whine about? The libertarians like to talk about “rape” when it comes to taxes dedicated to social welfare, but where is their rhetoric when it comes to taxes used for WHOLESALE, UNJUSTIFIED KILLING AND DESTRUCTION. We’ve all been gang-raped–why aren’t they screaming?!
We live in a bizarro world.
Poor Americans: bad slackers who need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Poor foreigners who live close to oil: people who deserve to feed at Mother America’s ample bosom indefinitely. God bless 'em (just keep them over there…we don’t need anymore “Ahsalamalaykum” folks over here!)
Americans killed by terrorism: must be remembered in every prayer and honored with car ornaments and cheap slogans like “Let’s Roll” and “These Colors Don’t Run”.
Iraqis killed by terrorism post-SH: don’t even worry about forgetting them. Don’t even acknowledge their existence, since their lives were meaningless anyway. Our bombs just spared them from second-hand smoke.
$42.5 billion for food/nutrition programs: a huge amount of money that’s a waste since there are no real hungry people in the US, and those who are hungry deserve to be that way.
$300 billion for spending in Iraq/Afganistan: a drop in the bucket. We should really spend some more, just to make sure the Al-Kay-Duhs don’t crop up somewhere.
American soldiers: fighters of freedom and democracy and righteousness. We must support them at all cost, even when they volunteer to enter this madness on their own accord.
Iraqi insurgents: scoundrels, all of them. They should all be killed. How dare they defend themselves and their country from foreign invaders! What nerve!
Let’s drive around in the biggest SUV we can find and talk about how people shouldn’t be bitching about gas prices, since a gallon of Pepto-Bismol is WAYYY more expensive than a gallon of unleaded. Those ungrateful liberals!
A damn bizarro world.