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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: TimF3/10/2011 1:12:31 PM
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One chart: It's the entitlements
By TigerHawk at 2/27/2011 08:51:00 AM

I propose a new rule: Any federal politician of either party who claims to care about our fiscal condition who is not also proposing steep reductions in entitlements is transportingly disingenuous and ought to be voted out of office.



More here. The link explains why "the U.S. is screwed," but we are only screwed if we lack the courage to tame this monster. Until this problem is solved, no federal politician should ever again leave a meeting with constituents without having to answer the question "what is your proposal for reducing entitlements?"

tigerhawk.blogspot.com

And that's the chart for current spending, in the future entitlements (unless cut) will be a noticeably larger piece of the pie.
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