“What’s going to increase the deficit is the failure to deal with entitlement spending. That’s what’s driving it,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Ok.), an appropriator.
The deal raising the debt ceiling and setting spending limits for defense and non-defense discretionary spending this year will add as much as $1.7 trillion to the deficit over a decade.
Not recommended.
There is a lot of both-sides-ism in this piece, obscuring some basic facts.
Democrats do not want to gut or decrease government spending for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which Americans depend on for survival, but which Republicons refer to as “entitlements,” with a sneer.
Republicons always want to cut these lifeline social safety net programs, to achieve ever greater tax breaks for the wealthiest, and more massive subsidies for the biggest, wealthiest, most powerful industries.
This may help with clarity.
Democrats: America equals people – Americans, naturalized Americans, and potential Americans (who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants, and who should not be tortured). America equals powerful principles.
Republicons: America equals corporations and profits, wealthy people, and unprincipled power. Everyone else and everything else is an expendable and disposable resource.