Democrats organize to fight back

[Eric the Green]

(11-27-2016, 04:39 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(11-21-2016, 11:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The chart was for discretionary spending.

Social Security and medicare are entitlements, because people have paid for them. If they are running out of money, it is only because money has been stolen from them, and some people aren't paying enough into them.

I notice your chart also adds payments on the debt; that isn't "discretionary" either, unfortunately, and results almost entirely from imprudent tax cuts, recessions caused by lax Reaganomics repeals of regulation, and unneeded war and military spending.

And of course now we will be paying much more for services the debt, because the debt may explode if Trump gets his way.

It's not my "claim."

Eric, what is the link to your chart, and does it have dollar values with it? Your claim that it is discretionary is odd; SNAP (food stamps) is mandatory and therefore would not be in your chart.

By the way, FWIW, spending on food stamps (SNAP) has been running at about $75 billion a year for the past couple of years.

probably in the category of food and agriculture.

I don't have a link to the chart I posted. I'm not sure that, with the caveats I explained, Warren's map is all that different. I'm sure this info is widely available from many sources, from many viewpoints.