Originally Posted by Ustwo

Of course it would grow quicker, how can we make the beast that is social spending grow quicker. My child spending last year rose 50% over my other expenditures because I had another child, but I still spent way more on other things.




* Medical assistance to low income persons cost $222 billion or 51 percent of total welfare spending.
* Cash, food and housing aid together cost $167 billion or 38 percent of the total.
* Social Services, training, targeted education, and community development aid cost around $47 billion or 11 percent of the total.



We are spending less on the war then we spend on straight welfare, the checks, the food stamps that sort of thing, and far less than our social programs.

<h3>And I'll like to get a bit philosophical. Its not the governments JOB to give people others peoples money, though thats what it does in spades these days. It is its job to fight wars.</h3>




We have far greater sinkholes in the form of free money we give out to non-productive vote plantations. As for the fake terrorists, thats your opinion, and I completely disagree.



This administration doesn't care about car safety? Those bastards! Perhaps we need a war on car safety? While this is an apple in my orange juice, perhaps more could be done for car safety, perhaps we could all drive big rubbery balls that can't go over 30 miles an hour and are centrally controlled. Maybe that IS the better way, but thats protecting people from themselves. Apparently people like their cars they way they are, and have for this administration, and the last one, and the one before that. When car safety was a big problem, it did become a government issue. If you don't think the current standards are enough then feel free to get at it. Maybe Hilary can make that part of her campaign.



If I was doing a cost benefit analysis as a scientist I'd say kill off about 20 million Americans as they give us no benefit and they cost a shitload. I'd then nuke all of the mid east except for the oil fields as this would be the greatest benefit with the least cost, though we would need to run the numbers if slave labor would give a greater benefit or just straight genocide.

This is why using a cost benefit analysis is not perhaps the best way to decide this.