Tom Cole: The Only Way To Balance The Budget Is To Go After Entitlements

[Sebasdad22]

Tom Cole, human feces from Oklahoma just said this on CNN.

This statement is a lie.

If you made the rich pay taxes like the rest of us, and you made corporations pay taxes like small business, you could balance the budget without forcing granma on a cat food diet, and make her live in her car.

If you don't resist what the Republican Scum Machine has coming, you don't deserve a meal, or a bed in retirement.

I Am 100% Full Resistance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sebasdad22]

1. Entitlements are 70% Of The Budget

And 70% of the revenue then too right?

We are still collecting more than we are paying.

Lie, lie, lie.

Republicans are all scumbags.

Maxine Waters is right.

[safeinOhio]

2. Oh crap

Looks like I'll have to switch from caned to dry cat food.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. The only way to balance the budget is to put the MIC on a diet.

[shenmue]

4. We paid for these things

[Ohioblue22]

5. yes! big oil and big pharma entitlements must go

[Jim Lane]

6. Let's also reject the automatic assumption that the budget must be balanced. (n/t)

[ladym55]

7. These are not entitlements

They are paid benefits ... we schlubs pay into these things during our working lives to benefit all.

I will never understand the working people who vote Republican.

And I am so tired of being lied to by Rethuglicans and how they are permitted to do so constantly and with impunity.

[progree]

8. I consider them entitlements -- I am entitled to something I paid for

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Just like if I go to a store, buy things, pay for them, then I am entitled to leave the store with my purchases.

Actually I like the word. If some right wingers (not you) want to try to make it out to be a synonym for "handout", I could care less to put it mildly.

Yes, "earned benefits" is even better. But entitlements is just fine too.

[ladym55]

9. Thing is that the right has damaged this term

They make it seem like something we are entitled to (earned benefits) is a bad thing ... something that should be taken away. That is why I push the term benefits--to remind all the people who vote against their best interests that they have EARNED their Social Security and Medicare.

[progree]

10. I think some on the left are doing a great job of damaging the term and I refuse to join them.

either left or right.

[font color = blue]>>That is why I push the term benefits--to remind all the people who vote against their best interests that they have EARNED their Social Security and Medicare.<<[/font]

I hope you push the term "earned benefits" or "paid benefits" or similar. Just "benefits" sounds like a handout or the unfortunately demonized term "welfare"