Does anyone care that we can't afford the stuff Obama promises to dole out?

[GetItRight]

I think the people who support this stuff typically have no clue. They are not smart people, not educated, don't have critical thinking skills. All welfare spending, or government spending in general, is a combination of stealing money at gunpoint (a form of slavery) from the productive class, enslaving the unborn with trillions in debt, and debasing the currency as funny money flies off the presses to pay for it (inflation, a tax on everyone except the rich that get the funny money first... essentially theft... more slavery). I tend to think the majority of people are just a combination of stupid and greedy, rather than malicious or evil.

Poe's Law?

Hanlon's razor

[tomsang]

70% of our federal spending is Medicare, Social Security and "defense."  The focus on "Obamaphones" is like someone who makes $25,000 worrying about whether to buy generic or name-brand mustard when they have a $70,000 Escalade sitting in the parking lot. 

Since everyone gets old (hopefully), everyone tends to benefit from Social Security and Medicare.  What we don't benefit from is spending trillions of dollars on poorly designed aircraft, or losing wars against guerrillas armed with IUDs.  Somehow everyone who professes to be worried about government spending focuses on the mustard.

I agree with your post. The good news is the guerrillas will die out with low birth rates.

[alm0stk00l]

I think the people who support this stuff typically have no clue. They are not smart people, not educated, don't have critical thinking skills. All welfare spending, or government spending in general, is a combination of stealing money at gunpoint (a form of slavery) from the productive class, enslaving the unborn with trillions in debt, and debasing the currency as funny money flies off the presses to pay for it (inflation, a tax on everyone except the rich that get the funny money first... essentially theft... more slavery). I tend to think the majority of people are just a combination of stupid and greedy, rather than malicious or evil.

Poe's Law?

Hanlon's razor

I also thought it was sarcasm. You actually believe all of that?

[Eric]

I think the people who support this stuff typically have no clue. They are not smart people, not educated, don't have critical thinking skills. All welfare spending, or government spending in general, is a combination of stealing money at gunpoint (a form of slavery) from the productive class, enslaving the unborn with trillions in debt, and debasing the currency as funny money flies off the presses to pay for it (inflation, a tax on everyone except the rich that get the funny money first... essentially theft... more slavery). I tend to think the majority of people are just a combination of stupid and greedy, rather than malicious or evil.

Poe's Law?

Hanlon's razor

Whew!  I'll just chalk up the statement to stupidity then, per your suggestion.