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I r conservative so not so smart. Let me see if I understand what you're saying.

1) A mother of 3 is receiving $500/month. The obvious point is that isn't enough to support the family. She goes to a charity program to receive additional assistance. Glad to hear that such a program is able to exist based on the donations it receives. Obviously the mother is not living the life of dreams. That is unfortunate and I feel for her situation. I genuinely hope that she sees a turnaround soon.

2) Iraq and Afghanistan are fucked and we're sending truckloads of money dressed in camouflage there every month. Yep, that sucks and we've got to figure out a way to end that charlie fox asap. Yep, taxpayers are on the hook for that. Of course, we're spending more than we're collecting so we're really borrowing money to do that. Money my kids and their kids will have to pay back in future taxes. That sucks.

3) Healthcare. So our tax money pays for a very very minimal welfare system which hardly provides enough to make ends meet, got it. I'm glad that at least that small safety net is in place. Where you lose me is in the idea that because we are wasting money in one place I shouldn't lose any sleep over borrowing more money to pay for an entirely new bureaucracy to be created and administered.

That is kind of like a doctor looking at a patient with a gunshot wound in the chest and deciding since he's losing so much blood anyway, maybe we could take a little more from him for some experimental shit on the side.