You can't buy beer or cigarettes or pay your cable bill with food stamps.
The money spent on Medicaid and Medicare goes to pay doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. You can't buy beer of cigarettes or pay your cable bill with Medicaid or Medicare money.
Most of the money spent on Social Security goes to pay for food, medical co-pays, rent and/or property taxes and utilities and an occasional gift for a family member. You can buy cigarettes or beer or even pay your cable bill with your Social Security check. But for many seniors, the check just isn't big enough to pay for those kinds of "extras."
One thing is pretty sure, if you are relying on food stamps, Medicaid or Social Security for most or all of your income, you probably don't belong to a country club, own a yacht or travel (unless someone else pays for those things).
The Republicans assume that everyone enjoys their lifestyle. They cannot imagine and do not understand how people live who don't have their kind of money.
I should add this. Think about all the money paid by Homeland Security for security checks in our airports. Who benefits? Airlines and people who have high enough incomes to allow them to pay for airline tickets. The people who live off food stamps and most on Social Security fly on planes very, very rarely if at all.
Think about almost any area of government expenditures, government budget items. The amounts spent to help the wealthy or to keep American businesses going is a very, very large portion of the government. Governments buy computers, build schools, courthouses, city halls, parks.
I could probably provide for my own security and policing by building a huge wall around my house and buying an armored car. We have police so that we can travel freely in our communities. Thieves are unlikely to be interested in my house. Hardly worth the risk to break and enter. It's wealthy people who really need a strong police presence. We need it mostly to protect us from the gangs in our midst. But we could build big walls around our houses and achieve that effect. It would look ugly -- but we could do it. The rich, who rely on flowing markets, buying and selling, for their wealth, cannot close themselves off and survive on a small garden.
If you think about it, we all rely on the government. Who are the real leaches?
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I believe there are 47 Bible verses about paying taxes correct me if I'm wrong..
I haven't seen any of the whiners; really? Here on DU? 
