Cutting Social Security for Defense?

I sent out a Tweet a little while ago that putting Paul Ryan in charge of the budget was like putting an exterminator in charge of an ant farm. Dumb idea.

I want to apologize to exterminators. At least they work hard for a living.

I wanted to be happy today since last night was the first good night I had in 16 days. Wondering what to do if the yahoos in Washington couldn't flush their ego and to the right thing was really hard to take. After all, we had to fight for my husband's claim to be approved for 6 years. No, not the last six years but back in the 90's when it was a mess before.

That is the problem with congress. They never really manage to fix things for good. People complain about the backlog but never seem to remember that we've been here before, heard a lot of promises and things seemed ok for a while only to end up out of control yet again. You can look up some of the history of this from Wounded Times under VA Claims. Paul Ryan wanted to gut the VA among other things, so that left a really bad taste in our mouths when we kept reading reports on veterans suffering all over the country all over again.

Anyway,,,,What the hell were they thinking? Did they think it was a good idea to put someone from the Tea Party in charge of the budget for the country? If you are a veteran on top of being in the older generation, you'll love this one.  It just got dumber.

Harry Reid Says Hiking Defense Spending For Social Security Cuts Is A 'Stupid Trade'
Posted: 10/17/2013

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has no interest in a budget deal that trades sequestration relief for entitlement cuts, believing that future spending reductions scheduled to hit the Pentagon give Democrats the upper hand. Instead, the Nevada Democrat told The Huffington Post on Thursday, any large-scale debt-reduction deal must include increased revenue in exchange for changes to mandatory spending programs.

The government funding and debt limit bill signed Wednesday night sets a Dec. 13 deadline for budget negotiators to report back to Congress. If no deal is struck, Congress will have until Jan. 15 to approve continued government funding or face another shutdown.
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