U.S. Congress Cuts $8.7 Billion in Food Stamps, But Finds $22 Billion to Fight ISIS

[Red Terror Dr.]

The GOP Congress’s assault on the American working class has been waged with the pretext that the Federal government has no money (what with being in debt and all). This despite the money being owed to the American people on the whole, and despite the long tradition of deficits in government budgets, which have seldom in history been balanced. But note that when there was a Republican president in the zeroes, the same voices did not demand austerity, but ran up the deficit with obvious glee. :crying:

[mojo.rhythm]

Yeah, the hypocrisy make you wanna pull your hair out of your head in frustration sometimes.

The Dems and Repubs can all go fuck themselves; seriously, I wish they'd all hold hands and jump off Mount Rushmore together. Especially the Dems. At least the Republicans are honest about their anti-worker and anti-poor intentions, and are openly committed to slaving for the bourgeoisie. The Dems put on a pretty face and, every once in a while, deliver Americans some Great White Hope (Kucinich, Warren, etc.) to stop the masses becoming totally and utterly fucking disgusted with their base, depraved, Wall St.-loving crypto-bourgeois politics. They keep the degenerate myth of reformism alive, in zombie form. Total bastards, they all are. FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!!!

[Red Son]

Same as it ever was...
Our PM has recently announced that, if he gets voted in again next year, he'll cut tax for nearly half the population..whilst freezing benefits for the poorest. Without appeasing the middle-aged middle classes that vote (by bombing evil doers, cutting taxes, kicking out immigrants etc) how can the 'centre left' and 'centre right' continue to play hot potato with power for another 50 years?

[Skyhilist]

Could you please define what you mean by "fight ISIS". Last I checked, bombing areas with civilians usually leads to higher rates of people joining far right groups like ISIS in response.

[Chomskyan]

Death culture.

[Illegalitarian]

War Capitalism

[mousEtopher]

I really don't understand why the US government is so flagrantly involving itself in all of these pointless military conflicts, or why Congress continues to authorize the expenditure of increasingly outrageous sums of money. It seems like every time you turn around we're bombing another country, and for what? How hard can it be to reallocate funds in a way that directly benefits the country and its citizens (and not to mention addresses a multitrillion dollar national debt)? What can be going through these people's minds, and why do people simply let it happen..

[The Intransigent Faction]

I really don't understand why the US government is so flagrantly involving itself in all of these pointless military conflicts, or why Congress continues to authorize the expenditure of increasingly outrageous sums of money. It seems like every time you turn around we're bombing another country, and for what? How hard can it be to reallocate funds in a way that directly benefits the country and its citizens (and not to mention addresses a multitrillion dollar national debt)? What can be going through these people's minds, and why do people simply let it happen..

Follow the money (or more precisely, the capital). If it's politically "difficult" to reallocate funds in that way it's because providing more food stamps hardly suits capitalist interests (at least according to capital in all its short-sighted glory). As for why people let it happen, well, consistent propaganda portrays bourgeois interests as those of 'Americans' at large, or otherwise people may not see what they can do about it. The same course of action does not have the same benefits for all "citizens" as some uniform entity.