re: #451 Ian G.

Didn’t know gay marriage was an “entitlement”, but never mind. Note what’s missing: medicare and social security. Of course. This freeper will be (or already is) benefiting from those programs, so they’re not “government waste”. It’s only government waste if it’s spent on poor brown people.

Precisely this. It is never, has never been, and will never be about actual fiscal responsibility. It’s about getting the government to spend on me and only on me. There are teabaggers that have been government employees their whole lives, who currently collect social security AND medicare, who complain about “the size of government” and “entitlements”.

This is why I (and over half the country as demonstrated Tuesday) cannot take Republican economic ideas seriously. It’s a transparent sham to hoard all the government largesse for themselves.