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Topic	Do Conservative politics have a place in the modern world?
Webmaster4531 03/25/18 5:12:26 AM #23:	darkjedilink posted... Kombucha posted... darkjedilink posted... And I notice you're only countering the last point - not the one about how complaining that we can't touch entitlement programs is EXACTLY how we're in the financial quagmire we're in right now. $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package for fiscal 2018, including nearly $700 billion for the military and $591 billion for non-defense funding. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/03/22/heres-what-military-gets-13-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill.html tfw the defense budget makes up the majority of our government spending in an entire fiscal year, can't believe those entitlement programs are sucking us dry ;_; if only we could find a way to pay for them. In one year. It hasn't been more than 18% of total federal spending in over a decade previous. It's still less than 20% of the national debt. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, however, combine to make up 65% of the federal debt. It literally is entitlement programs sucking us dry. That doesn't make sense. George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5.8 trillion while Obama added $7.917 trillion. Everything you mentioned existed previous to both their administrations. George W. Bush only managed to pass a Medicare plan. --- Ad Hominem. <cite>Webmaster4531 posted [p:898450611] in Do Conserv... [t:76450476]...</cite> <quote><cite>darkjedilink posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Kombucha posted...</cite> <quote><cite>darkjedilink posted...</cite> <quote>And I notice you're only countering the last point - not the one about how complaining that we can't touch entitlement programs is EXACTLY how we're in the financial quagmire we're in right now. </quote> $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package for fiscal 2018, including nearly $700 billion for the military and $591 billion for non-defense funding. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/03/22/heres-what-military-gets-13-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill.html tfw the defense budget makes up the majority of our government spending in an entire fiscal year, can't believe those entitlement programs are sucking us dry ;_; if only we could find a way to pay for them.</quote> In one year. It hasn't been more than 18% of total federal spending in over a decade previous. It's still less than 20% of the national debt. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, however, combine to make up 65% of the federal debt. It literally is entitlement programs sucking us dry.</quote> That doesn't make sense. George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5.8 trillion while Obama added $7.917 trillion. Everything you mentioned existed previous to both their administrations. George W. Bush only managed to pass a Medicare plan. --- Ad Hominem.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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