Paul Krugman wants to know why no Republicans are concerned with an actual 1.2% increase in the GDP devoted to defense spending in the `00s, but they freak out over a projected 1.2% increase in the GDP for Social Security by 2030.
The answer, of course, is patently obvious: Increased Social Security spending benefits few rich people. On the other hand, there are legions of defense contractors who have made a boatload of money on Bush's War on Terrah. Those rich defense contractors pump millions of dollars back into the Confederate party's politicians' campaign coffers.
Ike was right.
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I grow increasingly confused over the strategy of the wealthy. It seems like they're trying to be at the top of an enormous shit pile of a country, instead of being at the top of a thriving, sophisticated country.
It's not like the trickle of Social Security payments, and all other assistance doesn't end up in the hands of the rich after a few transactions, anyway. Why are they so adamant that it not pass through the hands of the poor first, for the benefit of the whole country?
It's like if vultures weren't willing to wait for critters to die and decided to kill every last living thing on the planet right now, out of greed.
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