Save Our Safety Net, Cut the REAL Bloated Spending

This is your Congress on blinders:

You've worked hard your whole life, contributing every week toward UI benefits, BUT... Washington Fat Cats want to take away that UI pitance of a safety net you're barely surviving on instead of going elsewhere to cut real bloated spending.

Read Campaign for America's Future's Deficit Cutters -- Here's Your First Trillion by Dave Johnson, complete with graphs and charts and a real solution  -- The Sustainable Defense Task Force.

"Today the country is looking for ways to cut spending and borrowing. Yet military spending, the biggest spending item in the budget, is barely part of the discussion -- obviously because of the amount of campaign and lobbying dollars it generates.

The corrupting influence of lobbying money is clear: the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 has not yet penetrated the bubble around the country's capital. In fact, military spending has soared in recent years..." Read on

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