The cuts that hammer the poor and working class are particularly galling in light of the fact

[cali]

that DoD paid billions to military contractors in fraudulent charges. Hard to know exactly how many billions, but regardless, that's just the tip of the ice burg.

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Pentagon_Paid_285_Billion_Dollars_to_Contractors_that_Defrauded_Government_110204

[ejpoeta]

1. yeah it's fascinating how pissed off everyone is about the lazy poor bilking the system

and all that fraud (like ambulance rides for medicaid recipients) yet not a peep about the fraud and missing money in the area of war.

[Autumn]

6. It's okay though if crooks and thieves bilk

the system, as long as they are government connected.

[Doctor_J]

8. More like as long as they're Hate Radio connected

Remember that the teabaggers hate "the government", but since Beck's chalkboard doesn't have Halliburton or Blackwater on it, the idiots don't mind that.

[Syrinx]

2. Ike warned of the iceberg

But he went unheeded. The MIC is stealing us all blind. Is this when the curtain that Zappa talked about is finally lifted. It's pretty brazen stuff going on these days. I wish Obama would talk about it.

Meanwhile, Stuart Varney is yapping on FOX about Obama's unfair tax burden on the top 1%. :eyes:

[Horse with no Name]

4. Obama isn't going to talk about it

He is the man behind the curtain these days. The candidate Obama that you voted for is long gone and was replaced by someone without a heart and without a soul.

[Raster]

9. I wonder if that man was ever really there. Same ol' corporate horse...

...just a different color.

[QC]

3. K&R!

[sasha031]

5. Senator Sanders seems to be the only one that brings these atrocities

into the light. Great find, thanks for posting.

[Bandit]

7. And those payments will increase with the new Budget.

Largest Defense Budget since WW II...Maybe we could get a few billion thrown in for implements of torture..:shrug: Republican Dreamland