On 21 August 2012 16:54, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Add to that 46 million seniors collecting Medicare (subtracting out<br>> about 10 million on Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other<br>
> senior-eligible programs already included in Sessions’ means-tested<br>> chart) and 22 million government employees at the federal, state, and<br>> local level — and suddenly, over 165 million people, a clear majority<br>
> of the 308 million Americans counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in<br>> 2010, are at least partially dependents of the state.<br><br>I suspect that if they are interested in the vaguest chance of going on with that for any length of time, they should be quite in favour of cutting programmes such as military parties abroad, if the accounting at <a href="http://costofwar.com">http://costofwar.com</a> is accurate... :-)<br>
<br>My concern is that fundamental reserch and education (let alone things such as space programmes) might go along down the drain...<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>