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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1003)	7/30/2008 6:01:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Mindmeld your either exposing your ignorance or your being deliberately obnoxious. Anyone who knows anything about the US budget knows that social programs are the biggest part of US spending, and the biggest part of that is entitlements. I could look up the exact figures, but if your going to argue in such bad faith there probably isn't much point in having any conversations with you. Its as if I said the Earth was round, and you wanted me to post details of the curvature, stating that without them my statements where just "hot air". Fine you want some figures, here you go * $644 billion - Social Security * $408 billion - Medicare * $224 billion - Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) * $360 billion - Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending en.wikipedia.org The total is $1636 bil or over half the $3.1tril total.