Why does every discussion about the budget jump to cuts in medicare and social security, or cuts in police and fire? If you keep crying wolf, like this some people may continue to be fooled, but the majority will become weary of these same old straw man arguments. There is no way that the republicans want to touch Social Security, given their recent political losses. Anyone who looks at their paycheck knows that Social Security and Medicare are separate from income tax and does not figure into the budget anyway. They are administered completely separate from the congressional budget.
Why not talk about cutting something like... hmm... cutting corporate welfare or military spending? Something meaningful instead of another straw man? I could name dozens of things that could be put on the table without alienating the constituency. If the Democrats put something meaningful on the table, they will gain some leverage and not look like the party taking America into financial ruin.
Sir, why would selling LEGAL guns acquired through a buyback program to legitimate dealers be an EVIL move? It seems to me that this would be a most respectable way of funding these programs while still removing unwanted weapons. The only ILLEGAL guns most of these things draw are guns stolen simply to get the buy back money, or a wartime keepsake. Ask any of the buybacks how many machine guns or actual heavy weapons they have recovered, and I am betting those numbers will be very low. They do get a LOT of handguns that were legally acquired by a family member somewhere along the line, as well as the occasional very valuable antique. When they are required to destroy ALL seized weapons, that puts some keepsakes in the same category as a saturday night special.
Gun buy backs are a great way to get guns off the streets and these republicans, ALEC and the NRA always have their right wing evil all over everything that would make Americans safe.
It's not that perplexing that Freedomworks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of America's plutocracy, is going after unions. While business owners are free to form business associations where they can meet, concoct strategy and even set pricing strategies, apparently it is "just horrible" for workers to do essentially the same thing.
Freedomworks should change its name to Slaveworks.
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