Republicans Try to Abolish Arts Groups

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

We need solar powered android soldiers. The enemy won't need bullets to beat them, just a giant umbrella.

We already do. They are called straight leg infantry, but are in limited supply these days.

[mawilson 2,133]

When the country is running a $1.5 trillion budget deficit for FY2011, art, humanities, public broadcasting, NASA, and all the other unnecessary expenditures need to be reduced or eliminated.

Why? To save 0.03 percent (the equivalent of pocket lint on a sinking boat, to use AJ's simile)?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Why? To save 0.03 percent (the equivalent of pocket lint on a sinking boat, to use AJ's simile)?

If you collect all them drops in a bucket, you get cups, then pints, then quarts, then gallons. Whether you die all at once, or from a thousand paper cuts, the result is the same.

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If the powers that be can demonstrate their ability to cut spending in political sacred cows like social security and the military, then I think you'll find a lot less skepticism about cutting the arts.

[The_Dude 1,142]

If you collect all them drops in a bucket, you get cups, then pints, then quarts, then gallons. Whether you die all at once, or from a thousand paper cuts, the result is the same.

You can't nickel and dime the federal deficit down. If you're aren't willing to cut military spending, then you are just being disingenuous.

[mawilson 2,133]

If you collect all them drops in a bucket, you get cups, then pints, then quarts, then gallons.

You won't. It's like saying that you will become a millionaire by saving

your change in a piggy bank and recycling your bottles and cans. You might

save up $200 in a year or two, but it won't ever come close to a million dollars.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

If the powers that be can demonstrate their ability to cut spending in political sacred cows like social security and the military, then I think you'll find a lot less skepticism about cutting the arts.

You won't find the will to cut entitlements and defense until you eliminate all those little luxuries. Those old codgers vote, and they won't give up what they think they already paid for. Defense will be easier to cut than Social Security, or Medicare, if Obama follows through on what he said Tuesday, that he will veto any bill with earmarks.

You can't nickel and dime the federal deficit down. If you're aren't willing to cut military spending, then you are just being disingenuous.

Where did you get the idea I don't want to cut military spending?

You won't. It's like saying that you will become a millionaire by saving

your change in a piggy bank and recycling your bottles and cans. You might

save up $200 in a year or two, but it won't ever come close to a million dollars.

Big things tend to take care of themselves. It's the small things that go unnoticed.

Edited January 27, 2011 by Some Old Guy

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Those old codgers vote, and they won't give up what they think they already paid for.

Fine, then I hope their 401ks stay rock bottom and they all die on the job.

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Big things tend to take care of themselves. It's the small things that go unnoticed.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Fine, then I hope their 401ks stay rock bottom and they all die on the job.

Really. Too many selfish old people in this world.

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Really. Too many selfish old people in this world.

I bet they could get this rule fixed so earnings decrease benefits regardless of age. At time of high unemployment, who is going to whine to protect the entitlements of those with jobs?

If you were born January 2, 1943, through January 1, 1955, then your full retirement age for retirement insurance benefits is 66. If you work and are full retirement age or older, you may keep all of your benefits, no matter how much you earn. If you are younger than full retirement age, there is a limit to how much you can earn and still receive full Social Security benefits. If you are younger than full retirement age during all of 2011, we must deduct $1 from your benefits for each $2 you earned above $14,160.

If this rule is changed and their 401ks remain unusable, they will have no choice but to remain in the workforce and receive little to no social security...

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[mawilson 2,133]

Those old codgers vote, and they won't give up what they think they already paid for.

They will. They will either give it up willingly, or they will give it up when

the country defaults and goes bankrupt for real.