Look over here, they say, the federal government is broke. We must cut social services to the poor and the elderly. No, look over there, they say. We must cut funding to Planned Parenthood, they say, even though it does not use federal money for abortions.
They are so good at their diversions, their smoke and mirrors, are they not? Meanwhile the Democrats and Republicans have quietly agreed to increase spending for the Pentagon a whopping $516 billion -- a $10 billion increase from last year.
Your taxes and loans from China pay $39 billion a year in interest on loans for excessive defense expenses incurred since December, 1941. Your grandchildren and their grandchildren will pay the Chinese and the U.S. bankers unless we reverse the growth of the Defense Department budget, which has tripled since 1997.
Why? The bankers, defense contractors, and lobbyists pay for the politicians' campaigns. The politicians pay them back.
Look over there. Rep. Paul Ryan wants to "fix" Medicare by having us buy private insurance policies from for-profit insurance corporations based on Wall Street. Yet Medicare has $2.7 trillion in reserves, is good for 25 years, and does not need to be fixed.
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